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Somerset, England

Frome cloth-town riverside

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: mill waste.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1885 historic-map era

Dense woollen and later foundry town on the river Frome; mills, works and yards left waterside refuse through the 1800s.

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