Essex, England
Brightlingsea Colne estuary hard and shore (Essex)
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: oyster shell.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1897 historic-map era
Cinque-Port limb and smack-fishing town on the Colne, its hard and shipyards leaving Victorian bottles and crockery in the estuary mud.
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