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Diu

Portuguese fortress & town shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: eyes-only: bastions, Portuguese cannon.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Sea-girt Portuguese fortress of 1535 that held Diu until Operation Vijay in 1961, guarding the mouth of the Gulf of Cambay for four centuries

Fort, bastions, cannon and lighthouse documented on Wikipedia; beachcombing here is inference from four centuries of port traffic, no named finds accounts

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Crumbling unfenced ramparts over the seaSlippery moat rocks at high water

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