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Hundreds of Bottles of Toxic Beer Found Hidden Beneath Victorian-Era Staircase

04.08.2020 - By GizmodoPlay

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Archaeologists in Leeds, England discovered more than 600 beer bottles at the site of an old Victorian brewery. Stacked neatly beneath a cellar staircase, the beer inside these 19th-century bottles contains dangerous concentrations of lead. The bottles were found beneath the remains of what used to be the Scarborough Castle Inn, in the cellar of the old Tetley Brewery, reports The Drinks Business.

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