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Cumbria, England

Lorton vale mills on the River Cocker

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: mill refuse.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Vale of Lorton villages on the Cocker below Crummock Water, with old corn, bobbin and thread mills. Mill and village refuse by the river.

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