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Merseyside, England

Southport Ribble-mouth resort sands

Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Planned Victorian seaside resort on the Ribble-mouth sands from the 1820s. Foreshore gathers resort and washed-in refuse.

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