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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 bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also 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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