Powys, Wales
Claerwen reservoir upland farmsteads
Lake shore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Claerwen dam, completed 1952 as the last Elan reservoir, flooded remote hill farms in the Claerwen valley; ruins reappear at low water.
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