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Hampton

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

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

Also 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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