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Tyne and Wear, England
Jarrow Slake ballast and shipyard edge
Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: shipyard smalls.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1895 historic-map era
Jarrow Slake tidal flat took ballast and timber ponds beside Palmer's shipyard town, holding industrial refuse from the collier centuries.
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