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Southern District
Ashkelon, Israel
Beach below the national park cliffs, Roman finds
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Marbles
Coins and tokensAlso reported: Roman glass, mosaic tesserae.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Philistine, Roman and Crusader city on an eroding kurkar cliff; storms drop statues and mosaics onto the sand.
NBC News Dec 2010: storm exposed a 1.2 m Roman marble statue and bath mosaic on the Ashkelon shore; York U Middle East environment digest: IAA called the coastal erosion a national disasterView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Unstable cliffs, winter surf, rockfall
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.