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Gloucestershire, England

Stroud canal and wool-mill valley

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: dye and mill waste.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1885 historic-map era

Woollen-cloth town at the head of the Stroudwater and Thames and Severn canals; mill and wharf refuse filled the valley floor.

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