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Hoorn VOC-chamber harbour margins

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: glass.

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

Why this spot

1832 historic-map era

VOC chamber town on the former Zuiderzee whose old harbours and later IJsselmeer works reworked centuries of quay refuse.

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