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Milan Canal basin wheat port ground
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Briefly one of the busiest grain ports in the world after the Milan Canal opened in 1839, with warehouses ringing a basin abandoned when railroads bypassed the town; the silted basin and warehouse fringe hold 1840s-60s refuse.
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