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Uusimaa

Hanko spa and emigrant-port shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: spa crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Winter port, bathing resort and the main Finnish emigrant embarkation point 1880s-1920s; shore fills and spa-park margins carry that era's refuse.

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