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Auckland, New Zealand

Fitzpatrick Bay, Birkenhead brickworks shore

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: water-worn bricks, kiln waste, occasional Maori adze or sinker.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1840s brickmaker's farm and 1860s brick kiln on the Waitemata shore, 19th-century midden, early-1900s summer camping ground, WW2 US base.

Beachcombing Magazine (archaeologist Toni-maree Rowe) describes water-worn bricks, pottery sherds, ginger beer stoneware and broken glass eroding from the kiln site and midden at Fitzpatrick BayView source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Soft mudFast-flooding harbour tide, naval depot boundary, unstable eroding bank

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