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Newfoundland and Labrador

Burgeo southwest coast fishing islands

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: crockery (surface record only).

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

Island-sheltered fishing outport worked since the late 1700s, with flakes, stages and a winter herring fishery; shore refuse across the tickles.

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