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Bridgend, Wales

Porthcawl coal-dock and resort foreshore

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

1899 historic-map era

Coal-export dock town that became a resort on the Bristol Channel; old dock basin and foreshore refuse.

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