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Southeast, North Carolina
Southport NC
Old Yacht Basin waterfront
Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea glass
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso reported: ship hardware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Smithville, 1792 pilot and fishing town at the Cape Fear mouth, generations of waterfront discard along the basin and Bay Street shore
Historical inference from the town's 200-year working waterfront, no published find accounts located, downgraded accordingly
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Oyster shell cutsBoat wakes, soft mud off the bulkheads
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.