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Herculaneum shot tower landing
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: lead shot.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Lead port from 1808 with cliff-top shot towers dropping shot to the Mississippi bank, later a smelter city; the oldest landing ground lies under and around later industry.
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