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Greater Manchester, England

Manchester Castlefield basin district

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: warehouse smalls.

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

Why this spot

1888 historic-map era

The Bridgewater and Rochdale canals met among Castlefield's warehouses from the 1760s, the oldest industrial canal hub in the world.

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