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Torfaen, Wales

Llandegfedd reservoir and drowned Sor valley farms

Lake shore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Llandegfedd reservoir, filled in the mid-1960s, flooded farms and lanes in the Sor brook valley near Pontypool; foundations reappear in drought.

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