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Canterbury
Kaiapoi river port and woollen mill town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: mill machinery parts.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Small port on the Waimakariri north branch from the 1850s whose woollen mills ran from 1878; wharf reaches and mill ground hold industrial refuse.
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