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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 bottles
Codd and soda bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso 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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