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Cumbria, England

Braithwaite Coledale mining and mill village

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: mine and mill refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Village at the mouth of Coledale below the fell mines, with a former bobbin and pencil-lead mill on Newlands Beck. Mill and mining-era refuse by the beck.

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