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Nova Scotia
Mahone Bay shipyard head of the harbour
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
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
Foreign Protestant settlement of the 1750s that became a wooden shipbuilding town; yard slips and household refuse ring the shallow harbour head.
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