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East Riding of Yorkshire, England

Withernsea Holderness eroding coast

Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Small Victorian railway resort on the fast-eroding Holderness coast, where cliffs shed old ground onto the beach. Foreshore gathers resort and washed-out refuse.

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