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Encampment copper-boom smelter town
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
A 1897-1908 copper boom built a smelter and aerial tram terminus here on the Encampment River; smelter ground and boom lots hold short, rich deposits.
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