Is it legal to collect at Cape Town: Table Bay dumps + foreshore?

Permission required. Verified: SA's 60-year rule covers STRUCTURES; archaeological material is protected at 100+ years - digging pre-1926 material technically needs a heritage permit; the hobby operates on private land with owner consent, and that tension is acknowledged in-scene.

What can you find at Cape Town: Table Bay dumps + foreshore?

VOC onion and case gin (rare, high value), Victorian codds, ginger beer stoneware

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Cape Town

Table Bay dumps + foreshore

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Stoneware ginger beers

Also reported: high value).

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

1652-1940

The route's only fully documented dump-digging scene: antiquebottles.co.za lists ~40 named dumps nationally with a collectors register; pre-1925 ginger beers, codds and pot lids are the focus. The 1930s Foreshore scheme entombed the old beach.

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