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Rockville Hockanum woolen city

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also 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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