Is it legal to collect at Williamstown: Gem Pier foreshore?

Open. Surface sea glass on the public foreshore is unproblematic, Victoria's heritage legislation protects older relics and all dockyard and pier fabric, and the active BAE shipyard area is off limits

What can you find at Williamstown: Gem Pier foreshore?

sea glass, ceramic fragments, slag, copper sheathing tacks possible, eyes-only near heritage structures

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Williamstown

Gem Pier foreshore

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyOpen

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glass

Sea pottery

Nails and fittings

Also reported: slag, eyes-only near heritage structures.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Port Phillip's first anchorage from 1837, colonial shipbuilding and the Alfred Graving Dock, Gem Pier itself dates to an 1839 jetty

Port and dockyard history is documented in detail, beach glass and shard picking along the Nelson Place foreshore is inferred from that long working-harbour record, no named finds accounts located