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Port Chalmers wharves and foreshore, Otago Harbour

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, 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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