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California
Avila Beach / Port San Luis wharf era
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: Waterworn 1870s-90s glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1868-1905
[doc-history] People's Wharf (1868) and Harford Pier (1873) documented. NOTE: the 1990s Unocal cleanup excavated and replaced virtually all sand under Avila's front street - old deposits there are gone; the play shifts to the Harford/rocky frontage.
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