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Campbeltown whisky-capital loch shore

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1898 historic-map era

More than twenty distilleries worked here in the Victorian boom alongside a herring fleet, ringing the loch with bond, cooperage and quay refuse.

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