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Newfoundland and Labrador
Heart's Content cable station harbour
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Sea potteryAlso reported: crockery (look only).
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Landing point of the 1866 transatlantic cable with a staffed cable station for a century, overlaying an older fishing outport around the harbour.
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