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Parrsboro Minas Basin coal and lumber port

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

Port for Springhill coal and Cumberland lumber with a big schooner fleet through the late 1800s; wharf and ballast ground along the tidal harbour.

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