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Holyhead (packet harbour, Anglesey)

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: Packet-port and railway-town refuse, black-glass beers, and clay pipes around the old harbour and breakwater 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

Principal Irish Mail packet and ferry port; the huge breakwater and harbour were built out through the mid-to-late 19th century.

Keep exploring nearby

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