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Port Talbot / Aberavon (Afan estuary)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: and household refuse in Afan-side and beach tips.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, Ordnance Survey mapped

Docks named for the Talbot family opened mid-19th century; iron, coal and later steel drove a bottle-era build-out.

Keep exploring nearby

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