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Nova Scotia
Hantsport shipyard bank on the Avon
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Sea potteryPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
One of the busiest small shipbuilding towns in the Maritimes in the 1860s-80s, launching barques into the tidal Avon; yard and town refuse in the bank.
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