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Cairns, Trinity Inlet port for the fields

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: in fill only.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

1876 port for the Hodgkinson goldfield, then sugar and rail to the tin towns; the muddy Trinity Inlet foreshore was reclaimed with town refuse.

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