Wales
Barmouth Mawddach port and shipbuilding shore
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso 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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