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New South Wales

The Rocks and Darling Harbour foreshore

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

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

Also reported: applied-top ales and stouts, colonial bitters, transfer-printed ceramics and clay pipes from convict-era and Victorian foreshore fill..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1855 survey-plan era

Australia's first port and settlement, continuously built out through the whole bottle era; reclamation and privy fill along the historic waterfront.

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