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North Yorkshire, England

Skinningrove ironworks and jet shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: slag, jet.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Cleveland ironstone village with a shoreside ironworks from the 1870s and jet-bearing shale cliffs. Beach gathers works refuse, glass and jet.

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