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South Australia
Port Adelaide wharves and Port River
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).
Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
The colony's main port from the late 1830s (Gawler's New Port plan); heavy, layered maritime and mercantile bottle deposits.
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