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Westport, CA

North-coast doghole shipping port

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Pacific coast (doghole port)

An 1891 Sanborn documents a substantial port village on an otherwise empty coast, its steep-lot privies and shore dumps are classic undisturbed bottle ground.

Keep exploring nearby

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