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Victoria

Port Albert first Gippsland port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems

Also reported: ceramics.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Gippsland's earliest port from 1841, shipping cattle and Omeo gold before the railways; wharf margins and hotel frontages saw decades of tidal dumping.

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