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North Yorkshire, England

Thruscross and the drowned village of West End

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1800s village and mill debris (report only).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Flooded 1966 in the Washburn valley, drowning West End village and its flax mills; walls and mill bases surface in drought.

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