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Originally Posted by hollydog
There is a chap on fb who has reported that on an extremely low tide in the kelp beds exposed down from the anchor are lots of iron ingots which were used as sailing ship ballast.
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I could be way off the mark here, but I found records of a vessel which sank in 1885 (sail and steam powered) after it ran aground hitting rocks at 'Bordicar point' (possibly wrong spelling). It was the SS Ferrifer.
I don't know if it could have been towed North and broken up or if it just sank.
Could be a coincidence, but it was carrying 140 tons of pig iron ingots at the time!
Here is the link to the wreck site if anyone fancies a look. Unfortunately you have to pay for most of the information it links to, but the wreck report is free
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?238484