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Staffordshire, England

Burton brewery quarter and canal wharves

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: brewery smalls.

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

Why this spot

1882 historic-map era

World brewing capital by the 1880s, exporting pale ale via the Trent and Mersey Canal; brewery yards, cooperages and ash tips ring the town.

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