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Edgefield alkaline-glaze pottery district
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso reported: crockery, kiln waste.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Heart of the Edgefield alkaline-glazed stoneware tradition, home to Dave the Potter and many antebellum pottery works. Old town lots and pottery-site margins hold stoneware waste and household refuse.
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