England
Ripon canal basin below the market city
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: wharf ironwork.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
1890 historic-map era
Northernmost point of the connected waterway network, where the 1773 Ripon Canal basin took coal in and sent farm produce out; basin surrounds and the Skell banks carry Georgian and Victorian refuse.
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