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East, Virginia
Richmond VA
James River fall-line flats
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: medicines, inks.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Industrial river city where low summer water on the fall-line rocks and flats exposes two centuries of bottles and river-dumped debris
Named YouTube mudlarking and bottle-hunting accounts work the Richmond James at low water with finds on camera
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Class III-IV rapids and sudden dam releasesSlick rock, strong current: check river level before entering
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