England
Elsecar ironworks village and canal head
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: clay pipes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1892 historic-map era
Earl Fitzwilliam's model colliery and ironworks village at the head of the 1790s Elsecar branch canal, with workshops, coke ovens and wharves; canal basin margins and spoil ground hold industrial-era refuse.
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