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Taranaki, Taranaki Region
New Plymouth foreshore and Huatoki, Taranaki coast
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Stoneware ginger beers
Sea potteryAlso reported: Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters, settler crockery and glass from foreshore tips and creek-side yard pits.
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
Settled 1841; open-roadstead port town. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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