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Diamond City whaling village site

Old dump ground Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1850s-1890s glass and crockery scatter (look only).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Shore-whaling village on Shackleford Banks abandoned after the 1899 hurricane, its houses floated to Harkers Island; storm-scoured relic scatters persist in the dunes.

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