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Derbyshire, England
Swadlincote stoneware and pipe-yard tips
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso reported: wasters, kiln furniture.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1882 historic-map era
South Derbyshire pottery district making stoneware bottles, sanitary ware and clay pipes, with waster tips and clay pits ringing the town.
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