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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 potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos 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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