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La Roche-Bernard Vilaine estuary port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: clay pipes.

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

Why this spot

1835 historic-map era

Small deep-water port on the Vilaine gorge that shipped salt, wine and timber and built ships into the 1800s; old careening shore below the rock.

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