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New England, Rhode Island
RI East Bay muck
Bristol/Warren + Pawtuxet
Tidal mudflat Documented siteOpen
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: [doc] 1750s onions, pontiled meds.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Triangle-trade wharf shore of Narragansett Bay
The best-documented New England mudwalking there is: a RI digger wades the muck feeling bottles with his feet - 1750s Dutch onion bottles, pontiled meds, blob sodas, plus a documented tidal-marsh dig at extreme low tide.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Soft muck
work the ebb.
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