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Tai O stilt village foreshore

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: shrimp paste and salted fish jar fragments, net weights.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Tanka fishing settlement with pang uk stilt houses over tidal creeks; 70 acres of working salt pans until the mid 20th century, salted fish trade with Macau and Canton

Village, creeks and salt pan history verified; no documented sea glass or bottle finds located for the foreshore itself

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Soft estuarine mudFast tidal creeks, working boat traffic

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