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Around Mulberry Harbour Remains
Garlieston
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19 Here is Allan heading south across Rigg Bay. Notice the block-like
structure near the right hand edge of the picture.
In the picture below Allan is investigating it.
You can see it quite clearly in the second picture below and it seems
that what they would do is bring the floating pier up to it and drive
trucks on and off using this as a ramp, it then became part of the "crocodile"
system of floating roadway and was known as a "stone crocodile".
It is interesting that they built it of stone rather than concrete.
The third picture below explains itself.
