England
Todmorden Rochdale Canal mill town
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: mill tokens and brass.
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
1893 historic-map era
Pennine cotton town threaded by the 1804 Rochdale Canal, its mills, gasworks and wharves crowding the valley floor; canal margins and hillside tips carry dense Victorian refuse.
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