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Auckland waterfront and Freemans Bay reclamations, Waitemata Harbour

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also reported: applied-top ales and stouts, Hamilton and early Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps.

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

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

Retrolens historical aerial imagery covers this area (national series 1936-2005) and early Crown survey plans exist; specific town map year unverified, set null.

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