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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 bottles
Coins and tokensAlso 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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