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Marlborough

Picton foreshore, Queen Charlotte Sound

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 wharf-side hotel and store 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

Small sound-side port town from the 1850s-1860s. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific map year unverified, set null.

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