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Port Fairy fishing and trading port

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: applied-top ales, hotels and whaling and fishing ground..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

Early whaling, sealing and wool port with a colonial town built out along the Moyne River from the 1840s.

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