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Rhode Island
Bristol Harbor and wharf district
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso reported: whiteware and pipe fragments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Bristol Harbor on the east side of Narragansett Bay
LOC shows Sanborn sheets for 1884, 1891, 1896, 1903 and 1911, so the built-out bottle-era core is well documented.
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