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Manawatu-Whanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui

Foxton flax mill river port

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: tokens.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

New Zealand's flax milling capital and Manawatu river port from the 1860s; mill sites and the silted wharf loop hold decades of industrial refuse.

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