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Cardiff (Bute Docks / Taff estuary)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: and dumped clay pipes along the old dock edges and Taff foreshore.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, Ordnance Survey mapped

Coal-metropolis boom port from the 1840s; huge Victorian/Edwardian build-out around the docks makes it a prime South Wales tip-and-foreshore target.

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