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Rockville Hockanum woolen city
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1895 historic-map era
Woolen mills stepped down the Hockanum falls through the 1800s making fine cassimeres; steep bank fill below the mills is deep with refuse.
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