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Grand Turk, Cockburn Town

Front Street shore

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass

Also reported: eyes-only: colonial Front Street facades, salt-era jetties and seawalls.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Capital founded by Bermudian salt rakers in 1681, 18th-19th century Bermudian architecture lines the beach along Front and Duke Streets

beach and historic waterfront well documented by Visit TCI and Wikipedia, but no published collecting accounts; finds inferred from three centuries of waterfront settlement

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

occasional surf over the seawalls in high swellBoat traffic at the small jetties

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