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Nieuwpoort Yser-mouth fishing harbour

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea glassSea glass

Also reported: crockery, fishing gear.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Fishing port at the sluiced Yser mouth, rebuilt after 1918; harbour margins and reclaimed ground hold fishery and reconstruction-era refuse.

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