Is it legal to collect at St George's Caye, Belize: Baymen settlement shore, eroding bottles?

Prohibited, look only. Belize NICH Act 2000: all ancient monuments and antiquities belong to the Government of Belize, the Institute of Archaeology must be notified and removal is an offence; island is mostly private lots

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Q: What can you find at St George's Caye, Belize: Baymen settlement shore, eroding bottles?

18th and 19th century case gin and wine bottle glass, pearlware, pipes, coffin hardware (protected)

Baymen settlement shore, eroding bottles

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Clay pipe stems

Also reported: coffin hardware (protected).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

First British Baymen settlement and 1798 battle site; 18th and 19th century cemetery and houses on a low caye now eroding into the sea.

Texas State University field school (Garber) produced 'An Analysis of Historic Glass Containers from St George's Caye, Belize' (Heath Bentley) and a 2013 thesis on the cemetery; shoreline erosion of the historic layer is the documented problemView source →