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Time Team programmes covering the field of industrial archaeology include William Morris's 'Liberty' factory in Merton, south London; an early blast furnace at Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire; the excavation of the world's first railway viaduct at Blaenafon, in Wales; the site of Josiah Wedgwood's first pottery in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent; and – the first time the Team excavated an industrial archaeology site – the investigation of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory in Birmingham in the 1997 series.

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