Virginia
Hampton
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: seafood-cannery debris, clay pipes, and buttons near the Hampton River wharves..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Hampton River / Hampton Roads on the Chesapeake Bay
Earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1885. Burned in the Civil War then rebuilt, so bottle-era layers sit atop older material.
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