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Otago

Dunedin waterfront and harbour reclamations, Otago Harbour

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

GoldGold
Old bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also reported: wine and ales, stoneware, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps.

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

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

Otago gold rush made Dunedin NZ's largest city by the 1860s-70s. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.

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