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Cornwall, England

Looe ore and fishing harbour

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: ore-trade debris.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Twin town on the Looe estuary shipping Caradon copper and later fish; quays and riverbed took ore and town refuse.

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