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West Coast
Hokitika port and river mouth, West Coast goldfields
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Gold
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps, hotel and store dumps and shifting-river fill from the 1860s port.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Boomed from 1864-65 as the West Coast gold port. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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