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Newburyport

Joppa Flats

Tidal mudflat Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: rum-trade ware.

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

Why this spot

Rum and clipper port at the Merrimack mouth

1978 waterfront excavation behind Market Sq: 2,700+ artifacts with bottle glass DOMINANT, colonial through industrial.

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