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Gloucester

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: and galley crockery along the inner harbor and Rocky Neck waterfront..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Gloucester Harbor and Cape Ann Atlantic shore

Cape Ann fishing capital; earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1888 with editions running to the 1970s.

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