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County Durham, England
Easington and Warren House Gill colliery beach
Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea glass
Old bottles
Sea potteryPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Deep colliery from the 1890s that tipped spoil to the sea, blackening then slowly clearing the Durham coast. Beach gathers pit-era glass and pottery.
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