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Lyme Regis

The Spittles tip erosion

Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1870-1935

The town museum documents 'Rubbish from the Tip': Shippam's jars, cobalt milk-of-magnesia, Vaseline jars falling from the 2008 landslip ever since.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Landslip cliffs
tidal cut-off east of town

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