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Barmouth Mawddach port and shipbuilding shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: clay pipes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1888 historic-map era

Port of the Mawddach that shipped Merioneth webbing and wool then built over a hundred wooden ships before tourism took over; quay and estuary margins carry 18th and 19th-century refuse.

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