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Bottle Head Whale (stranded in the 18th century)

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Reproduced by courtesy Essex Record Office.
Image Caption: 
A Bottle Head Whale stranded at Maldon in the 18th century, a type still seen off of the coast. Depicted in S. Dale, The History and Antiquities of Harwich (1730).
Asset Author: 
Samuel Dale / Clacton VCH Group