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South Yorkshire, England

Damflask and the drowned Loxley valley hamlet

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: mid-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

Damflask village was swept in the 1864 Great Sheffield Flood and its site later flooded by the reservoir completed 1896.

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