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Unopened Victorian soft drink bottle found at dig
21 hours ago
Tom Jackson
BBC News, Cambridgeshire
Reporting from Arbury
Harriet Heywood
BBC News, Cambridgeshire
An unopened Victorian soft drink has been discovered by archaeologists ahead of work to turn a shopping centre into a new science hub.
Archaeologists have been excavating a Cambridge car park as part of a multi-million pound project to turn the Grafton shopping centre into labs and offices.
Les Capon, project manager with AOC Archaeology, said he believed part of the area could have been a blacksmith's workshop after discovering evidence of a forge and an anvil.
He added that it was rare to have found the drinks bottle in one piece as children often smashed them to get the small marble out of the glass.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86jy6dge67o
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