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Powys, Wales

Claerwen reservoir upland farmsteads

Lake shore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also 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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