Scotland
Portsoy old harbour and marble shore
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso 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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