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Portland Harbour bottle grounds

Dive site Source-confirmed findsPermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
MarblesMarbles

Also reported: ink wells, crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian naval harbour through the 20th century

Dorset HER records bottles recovered from Portland Harbour and a 'Bottle Bank' site that yielded glass bottles, a marble-stopper bottle, an ink well and 1960s crockery, all reported to the Receiver of Wreck.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

port trafficRestricted zones, low visibility

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