Victoria
Port Albert first Gippsland port
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
Clay pipe stemsAlso 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.
Keep exploring nearby
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