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New York
Dead Horse Bay (Barren Island landfill)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
FossilsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Legendary NYC 'bottle beach' over a former rendering-plant landfill.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.