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Shabo Swiss wine colony estate refuse

Tidal foreshore Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crocks.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Swiss winegrowers founded the Shabo colony in 1822 on the Dniester liman, and its estates left cellar and household refuse into the 1930s.

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