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Ocracoke village harbor rim

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Wreck timberWreck timber
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Pilot and fishing village around Silver Lake harbor serving Ocracoke Inlet shipping since the 1700s; village-edge refuse spans two centuries of maritime life.

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