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Lewes DE

Roosevelt Inlet wreck scatter

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Wreck timberWreck timber

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

Why this spot

1631 Dutch settlement; c.1774 wreck cargo pumped onto the beach by 2004 dredging

Thousands of colonial bottle/ceramic shards on Lewes Beach - surface picking became a known pastime.

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