Bottling Wood, Wigan, Greater Manchester - Archaeological Investigation Interim Report

In March 2010, OA North was commissioned to carry out a programme of archaeological investigation in Bottling Wood. The investigation was required as part of a scheme of flood defence works that are being carried out by The Environment Agency along the course of the River Douglas. An element of the scheme allows for the construction of a dam and infrastructure on the site of a former settlement in Bottling Wood, which developed as an industrial hamlet during the nineteenth century.