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Port Royal phosphate boom waterfront
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Deep-water port boomed on phosphate mining and naval coaling in the 1870s-90s; the shoreline carries boom-era refuse.
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