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Fraserburgh harbour and Broadsea

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: black-glass whisky, Codd and Hamilton sodas, clay pipes and ships' glass around the harbour and Broadsea shore; dense late-Victorian and Edwardian fishing-era refuse..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, Ordnance Survey mapped

Not among the confirmed OS Town Plan burghs, so map_year is null, but well covered by the georeferenced 25-inch maps; a major herring port with rich harbour mud.

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