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Whitehead-Carrickfergus shore, Belfast Lough

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Sea potterySea pottery

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

Why this spot

1860-1935

Both named by NI collectors - Victorian railway resort (Whitehead) and salt-port shoreline tipping (Carrickfergus).

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