Is it legal to collect at Jamestown Island VA: eroding 1607 shoreline (eyes-only)?

Prohibited, look only. Colonial NHP and Preservation Virginia land, protected under ARPA and the Virginia Antiquities Act: picking up so much as a pipe stem is a crime; paid admission, eyes only

What can you find at Jamestown Island VA: eroding 1607 shoreline (eyes-only)?

eyes-only: 17th-century brick, pipe stems and ceramics in the wash zone, the 1607 fort site, active digs

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East, Virginia

Jamestown Island VA

Eroding 1607 shoreline (eyes-only)

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Clay pipe stems

Sea pottery

Also reported: eyes-only: 17th-century brick, the 1607 fort site, active digs.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

First permanent English settlement in America, where the James River actively erodes 17th-century deposits inside NPS and Preservation Virginia land

Shoreline erosion exposing colonial material is documented by NPS archaeology and press on the island's flooding crisis; all recovery is by archaeologists