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North Carolina
Hatteras NC
Hatteras village beach, nor'easter wreck timbers
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Wreck timber
Nails and fittings
Sea glassAlso reported: lumber, fossil shark teeth.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Graveyard of the Atlantic: hundreds of 1800s and 1900s wrecks lie in the beach and dunes and surface when storms cut the sand.
WPTV/CNN, 18 Oct 2019: Charlie Hornfeck found a 20 ft wooden wreck section on the Hatteras beach after a nor'easter; it was reburied the next day; NPS submerged resources page lists dune wrecks at Ramp 27 and Coquina BeachView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Post-storm overwash, rip currents
ORV traffic on the beach
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