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Wareham

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
AmberAmber
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: stoneware, foundry slag and cinder, and clay pipes around the tidal river mill sites and the bayhead village..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Wikited at English Wikipedia (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Wareham and Agawam rivers at the head of Buzzards Bay near the Cape Cod Canal

Iron and cranberry town at the head of Buzzards Bay by the canal; earliest LOC Sanborn read as March 1887.

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