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UK & Ireland, Leinster
Bray north beach landfill (CLOSED)
Old dump ground, tidal Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: (historically: whole Dublin porters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1860-1968
Ireland's best-documented bottle site - 100,000+ cubic meters of 19th/early-20th-c refuse eroding along the beach (Beachcombing Magazine). NOW CLOSED: sealed off after diggers undercut the tip face into a dangerous overhang.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Collapse-prone tip face
Keep exploring nearby
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