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Stranraer harbour, Loch Ryan

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 and clay pipes around the harbour and the sheltered loch foreshore; Irish-trade glass turns up in the mud..

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

Why this spot

1847 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Covered by one of the earliest OS Town Plans (surveyed 1847); a sheltered Irish-ferry harbour with calm mud that preserves bottles well.

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