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Saltville salt works valley ground
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Salt-boiling town worked from the 1780s and a Confederate salt source, later an alkali company town; generations of works refuse fill the valley margins.
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