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Amsterdam

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsPermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Dense canal city; canal-bed and quay-fill finds famous (many logged by archaeologists).

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