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Stanley, Van Diemen's Land Company port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: port refuse, protected.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Company port under the Nut headland from 1826, shipping wool and later blackwood and crayfish; foreshore refuse and an intact 19th-century village.

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