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Barry (Barry Docks)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also reported: black-glass beers, and dense boom-town domestic refuse near the docks and Barry Island foreshore.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, Ordnance Survey mapped

Barry Docks opened 1889 and the town exploded to become the world's top coal-exporting port by the 1910s, so tips skew late-bottle-era and rich.

Keep exploring nearby

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