Explore / North America / New England
New England, Massachusetts
Provincetown MA
Harbor flats & west end shore
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea glass
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: wharf hardware, ballast flint.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Three centuries of fishing port: wharves, saltworks and shorefront households dumped straight onto the harbor flats
Beachcombing Magazine first-person account of sea glass, pottery and pipe finds along the harbor beach
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Fast-flooding tide over long flatsSoft mud near moorings
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