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Bristol Harbor and wharf district

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also 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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