Lincoln Inn whiskey was distilled in Canada and may have been one of the companies that later became Seagrams, although it’s not entirely clear. But how the whisky bottles ended up in the sand is a mystery. Contegiacomo suggested they may have been sucked up by dredging machines off the coast and deposited on the beach.

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A man found nearly a dozen prohibition-era whiskey bottles on the beach. Austin Contegiacomo's dog started sniffing around the sand during a walk near Margate Pier last month. That's when he discovered 11 sealed containers,