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Argyll and Bute, Scotland

Furnace Loch Fyne quarry and works village

Lake shore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: works debris.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Loch Fyne village named for an 18th-century iron furnace, later a gunpowder works and granite quarry with a shipping quay. Works and quay refuse gather along the shore.

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