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Onslow old townsite and jetty coast

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: pearling gear.

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

Pearling and pastoral port founded 1885 at the Ashburton mouth and shifted bodily to Beadon Bay in 1925; the abandoned old townsite ruins lie inland of the new town.

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