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India & Indian Ocean, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Diu
Portuguese fortress & town shore
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea glass
Sea potteryAlso 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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