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Buckie Cluny harbour drifter port

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: clay pipes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1902 historic-map era

Moray coast fishing capital whose 1880 Cluny harbour based one of Scotland's largest steam drifter fleets; harbour fill, coaling ground and Yardie shore carry fishing-boom refuse.

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