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Bruce Mines copper town shore
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Ontario's first mining town, worked for copper from 1846 with Cornish miners; shaft-side and shoreline refuse spans the Victorian workings.
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