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Penarth (Penarth Dock / esplanade)

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: Victorian resort and dock-worker refuse, medicine and poison bottles, and clay pipes along the esplanade foreshore and old dock margins.

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

Coal dock plus a genteel seaside resort developed from the 1860s-1880s, giving a mix of industrial and middle-class glass.

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