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West Yorkshire, England
Knottingley glassworks and canal reach
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: cullet.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890 historic-map era
Glass-bottle works ran along the Aire and Calder here from the 1870s, with limeyards and boatbuilding adding to canal-side waste.
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