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Hellevoetsluis naval-port dockyard margins

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: stoneware.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1832 historic-map era

Admiralty port of the Rotterdam squadron with dry dock and fortifications; naval provisioning from the 1600s-1800s left refuse in harbour and moat fill.

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