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Caucasus & Caspian, Baki

Baku

Black City oil-boom fringe

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Oil-boom cosmopolitan glass: Russian, Swedish (Nobel-era), Persian, European mix..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1870-1900

Historical inference; no documented digs found.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Contaminated industrial ground - oil-era soil is genuinely toxic in places.

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