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Arromanches Mulberry harbour remains

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: concrete caissons, harbour debris.

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

Why this spot

D-Day artificial harbour Port Winston, June 1944

About 20 Phoenix caissons of the Mulberry B breakwater remain visible from the beach at high and low tide and are eroding at roughly one per year.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

incoming tideSlippery concrete, possible wartime ordnance

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