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Cumberland Furnace iron plantation village

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Iron-making village from the 1790s through the 1930s around Montgomery Bell's furnaces; furnace banks and worker-village refuse span the whole iron era.

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