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Highland, Scotland

Banavie Neptune's Staircase Caledonian Canal

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: canal debris.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Neptune's Staircase, the eight-lock flight lifting the canal from sea level, with a hotel and busy transit traffic from the 1820s. Lockside and hotel refuse accumulate.

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