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Le Croisic sardine and salt harbour

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea glassSea glass

Also 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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