England
Middlewich salt town canal wharves
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).
Why this spot
1875 historic-map era
Ancient Cheshire salt town where open-pan works lined the Trent and Mersey and Shropshire Union branches from the 1770s; wharf land and flash margins hold pan scale, brine-works debris and town refuse.
Keep exploring nearby
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