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Murray Harbour cannery village

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: tins and solder.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Small fishing village ringed by lobster factories in the cannery boom of the 1880s-1920s; factory shore middens along the channel.

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