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Wellington, Wellington Region

Wellington waterfront and Te Aro reclamations, Port Nicholson

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers

Also reported: wine and ales, applied-top beers and stouts, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

colonial bottle era, historically mapped

Extensive 1850s-1880s reclamation. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic town map year unverified, set null.

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