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Peterhead harbour

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, ships' glass and clay pipes around the old harbours; heavy fishing-era dump material in the harbour mud..

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

Why this spot

1868 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Covered by the OS Town Plan of Peterhead; one of the north-east's busiest fishing ports, with productive harbour deposits.

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