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Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

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

Also reported: blackglass ale, clay pipes, Navy buttons, and coins along old wharf lots and filled waterfront blocks off the Elizabeth River..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Elizabeth River at Hampton Roads, off the Chesapeake Bay

One of Virginia's oldest tidewater ports; earliest LOC Sanborn read as 1887. Very built-out in the bottle era. May overlap an existing atlas entry; dedupe by coordinates.

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