Scotland
Lerwick lodberries and herring waterfront
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: gutting knives.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1900 historic-map era
Shetland's port whose lodberries traded with Dutch busses from the 1600s and whose Victorian herring boom made it Europe's biggest summer fishing station; harbour fill and gutting station ground carry dense refuse.
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