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Staffordshire, England

Rugeley Trent and Mersey canal and colliery

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

1901 historic-map era

Colliery and tanning town on the Trent and Mersey Canal by the Trent; works and pits tipped waste along the cut.

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