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Western Australia
Fremantle port and Swan River mouth
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beers
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: colonial bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1844 survey-plan era
Principal port of the colony from 1829 and the main entry point during the 1890s gold boom; deep, layered waterfront occupation. Historic townsite mapping confirmed (Fremantle Townsite 1844, Landgate/data.wa.gov.au).
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