England
Fowey harbour town waterfront
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: fish-cellar debris.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
1881 historic-map era
Deep-water Cornish port that shipped pilchards and later china clay from the 1870s, with a tight waterfront of quays and cellars; harbour mud below the town took steady domestic dumping.
Keep exploring nearby
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