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Wick harbour and Pulteneytown

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 Pulteneytown harbour and the river mouth..

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

Why this spot

1872 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Covered by the OS Town Plan of Wick; at its peak the world's busiest herring port, so harbour and river-mouth deposits are exceptionally dense.

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