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Mahone Bay shipyard head of the harbour

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also 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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