Scotland
Gatehouse of Fleet cotton town and Port Macadam
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Coins and tokensAlso reported: clay pipes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
1895 historic-map era
Planned industrial village whose cotton mills ran from the 1780s, with the Fleet canalised in 1824 to bring vessels up to Port Macadam; mill ground and river margins carry industrial-era refuse.
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