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Sunbury colonial dead-port ground

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: glass (protected, do not dig).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Thriving colonial and Revolutionary seaport on the Medway estuary that faded to nothing by the 1800s. The townsite is a documented colonial archaeological ground, not an open dig.

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