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Massachusetts
Spectacle Island (old city dump)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stems
Old bottlesAlso reported: Capped-landfill glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Former horse-rendering and city-dump island, now a park with glass beaches.
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