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Tokomaru Bay freezing works ruins bay

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: works machinery, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Coastal port whose 1911 freezing works and wharf employed hundreds until 1952; the brick works ruins and beachfront settlement mark the busy decades.

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