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Victoria

Portland Bay port town

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.

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

Victoria's first permanent European settlement and a whaling and wool port, occupied from the 1830s through the bottle era.

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