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Prince Edward Island

Mount Stewart head of the Hillsborough tide

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

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

Shipyards worked the head of Hillsborough River navigation here in the mid-1800s, and the railway crossed in 1875; yard and station refuse by the bridge.

Keep exploring nearby

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