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Merseyside, England
St Helens Sankey Canal and Pilkington glassworks ground
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: 1830s-1920s glass, cullet.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1893 historic-map era
Glass and copper-smelting town on the Sankey, England's first industrial canal, with Pilkington plate-glass and cullet waste from the 1820s. Heavy dumping of glassworks refuse.
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