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Rhineland flood-moved village site

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1850s-1990s mixed refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

German bottoms village that moved itself uphill after the 1993 flood, leaving the original 1830s-1900s townsite on the flats; old foundations and refuse remain in the fields.

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