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Leicestershire, England

Loughborough Soar navigation and bell foundry ground

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: foundry scrap.

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

Why this spot

1901 historic-map era

Bell-founding and hosiery town on the Grand Union and Soar Navigation; works and wharves left canal-side refuse.

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