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Portsea, VIC

Point Nepean Quarantine Station beach, 1850s relics

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Flint and stone tools

Flint and stone tools

Sea pottery

Sea pottery

Fossils

Fossils

Also reported: lime, brick.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: James St. John (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1852 Ticonderoga plague-ship quarantine burials and 1854 lime kiln buried in the foreshore dune.

Heritage Victoria: storms and very high tides at the end of August 2024 scoured the beach exposing an intact c.1854 lime kiln and a broken sandstone and marble tombstone, likely from the Ticonderoga burial groundView source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Unstable dunePossible human remains, bay currents

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