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Watchet harbour and iron-ore quays

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: clay pipes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1887 historic-map era

Small Bristol Channel port that shipped Brendon Hills iron ore to Wales from the 1850s to 1880s and served a paper mill and coasting trade; harbour silt and esplanade fill date from this traffic.

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