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Pays de la Loire
Le Croisic sardine and salt harbour
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea glassAlso reported: cannery tins and crocks.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
1835 historic-map era
Salt-shipping and sardine-canning port with 19th-c canneries around the tidal basins; harbour mud and quay fill carry fishery-era refuse.
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