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Barrow-in-Furness (docks, Cumbria)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: steel and shipbuilding boom-town refuse, black-glass beers, and dense late-Victorian domestic glass near the docks and Walney foreshore.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, Ordnance Survey mapped

Explosive iron/steel and shipbuilding boom town from the 1860s onward, giving concentrated late-bottle-era tips; a distinctly separate NW England target.

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