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Newfoundland and Labrador

Botwood pulp shipping and seaplane port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Deepwater port shipping Grand Falls newsprint from 1909 and the transatlantic seaplane base of the 1930s; industrial refuse along the Exploits estuary shore.

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