Cornwall, England
Portreath mining harbour
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: ore-trade debris.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Coal-in and copper-out harbour for the Camborne-Redruth mines with an incline and tramroad; basin and beach took ore refuse.
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