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Cannery piling fields

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: Cannery-era beers, Chinese cannery-worker material (opium tins, celadon)..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Columbia salmon-cannery waterfront; canneries burned/collapsed onto the flats

Local mudlarking scene documented (Discover Our Coast; Maritime Archaeological Society involved): glass, coins, even a cannonball.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Rotten pilings overhead.

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