A WEST Cumbrian village has been awarded £10,000 to uncover the secrets of a 200-year-old pottery buried beneath its playing fields.
Dearham Parish Council wanted to develop an overgrown part of Pottery Park for use as a recreation facility, but an evaluation of the site revealed that there was an eighteenth century pottery buried beneath the site – which explained the name of the area.
Archaeologists made the discovery while studying old Tithe maps, which contain details of the ‘Newlands Bank Pottery’.
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