Is it legal to collect at Cape Town, South Africa: V&A Waterfront fill, iron jetty and breakwater?

Prohibited, look only. SA: private waterfront precinct built over the fill; NHRA 1999 requires a permit for any disturbance of material over 100 years, Table Bay wrecks over 60 years are state property under SAHRA

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Q: What can you find at Cape Town, South Africa: V&A Waterfront fill, iron jetty and breakwater?

shipping-line crockery, patent medicine bottles, tumblers, toothpaste pots, clay pipes

V&A Waterfront fill, iron jetty and breakwater

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Shark teeth

Clay pipe stems

Also reported: shipping-line crockery, tumblers.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Victoria and Alfred basins built 1860 to 1920; fill between the iron jetty and breakwater packed with shipping-line crockery and patent medicine bottles.

Abrahams-Willis 1997 (South African Field Archaeology): hundreds of 19th and early 20th century artefacts salvaged from the fill during 1990 to 1993 construction, Union-Castle and British India Steamers marked ceramics, quack medicine bottles, toothpaste potsView source →