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Virginia
Chincoteague oyster shore and causeway flats
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: shell-midden era crockery.
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
Island oystering town shipping shellfish north by boat and rail from the 1870s; shucking-house shorelines and channel-edge dumps ring the old downtown.
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