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Cardigan Teifi quays

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: ship chandlery.

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

1889 historic-map era

Once the busiest port in south Wales with some 300 ships registered around 1815, trading herring, slate and emigrant passages until the Teifi bar and railways killed the trade; quays and river mud hold Georgian and Victorian refuse.

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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