Western Cape

Cape Town, South Africa

Q: Is it legal to collect at Cape Town, South Africa: Muizenberg beachfront, buried hotel and bottles?

Restricted. SA: National Heritage Resources Act 1999 makes objects over 100 years and structures over 60 years heritage resources, excavation needs a Heritage Western Cape permit; surface beach picking is tolerated, digging the promenade foundations is not

Q: What can you find at Cape Town, South Africa: Muizenberg beachfront, buried hotel and bottles?

torpedo and black glass bottles, Victorian ceramics, bricks, sea glass

Muizenberg beachfront, buried hotel and bottles

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottles

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: bricks, sea glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian seaside resort; hotel foundations demolished in the 1960s and 19th-century bottle glass lie 60 cm under the beachfront promenade.

False Bay Echo (20 Mar 2025): City of Cape Town refurbishment hand-excavations turned up a torpedo bottle dated 150 to 215 years old, sandstone and brick hotel foundations, glass and ceramicsView source →