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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 bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Also 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.

Keep exploring nearby

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