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Portsoy old harbour and marble shore

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: fishery ironwork.

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

1902 historic-map era

Banffshire burgh with a 17th-century old harbour that shipped Portsoy marble and herring, expanded in the 1820s; harbour ground and shore margins hold trading burgh refuse.

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