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Newfoundland and Labrador
Tilt Cove copper mine cove
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery (look only).
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Copper mined here from 1864 made it briefly one of Newfoundland's largest towns, nearly emptied after the mines closed; workings and refuse ring the cove.
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