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Maitland great ship launchways on the Shubenacadie

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

Shipbuilding village at the Shubenacadie mouth where the W.D. Lawrence, Canada's largest wooden ship, was launched in 1874; yard refuse along the tidal bank.

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