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Gisborne

Gisborne and Turanganui River port, Poverty Bay

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters, coastal-trader glass and crockery from riverside port yards and hotel dumps.

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

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

Turanganui riverside port town from the 1870s. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.

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