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Kidwelly quay and Kymer's Canal

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: tinplate works debris.

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

1879 historic-map era

Small Carmarthenshire port with a tinplate works from 1737 and Kymer's Canal of 1768, the first industrial canal in Wales, shipping coal from the quay; quay ground and canal margins hold 18th and 19th-century refuse.

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