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made of iron and a great spur wheel, alongside other remnant machinery. The first record of a mill on the site dates to 1757 when it was listed as for sale in a local newspaper. However there is documentary evidence preceding 1757 that lists owners of the land that the mill was built on. These owners
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pancheon bowl, a Sankey flowerpot, two shards of 18th-century green glass, an early 20th-century pocket-watch and a blue poison bottle inscribed "NOT TO BE TAKEN" from the wheel pit. There were 149 bottles or fragments of glass excavated from the site, representing brands such as
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