Otago
Port Chalmers wharves and foreshore, Otago Harbour
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, ship-trade and immigrant-depot glass and crockery from wharf-side yard pits and reclamation fill.
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
Deep-water port of Dunedin from the 1860s. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic map year unverified, set null.
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