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Rhineland-Palatinate, Rheinland-Pfalz

Boppard Rhine steamer quay and gravel bars

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: stoneware, clay pipes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Rhine-gorge wine town with a long promenade quay and 19th-c steamer landing; low-water gravel bars downstream collect town refuse washed from the old waterfront.

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