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Bear River tidal shipbuilding village

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Steep-sided village on a tidal river that built barques and shipped cordwood and cherries; buildings on stilts line the old shipping reach.

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