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Greenock harbour and Clyde shore

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, rum, ships' glass and clay pipes along the harbour walls and foreshore; Codd and Hamilton sodas common..

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

Why this spot

1857 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Covered by the OS Town Plan of Greenock; a deep-water Clyde port with centuries of harbour and shoreline deposition.

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