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Tampa, Hillsborough County

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: cigar-factory and saloon refuse, and privy dumps in the Ybor City and downtown waterfront blocks near the river mouth..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Hillsborough Bay at the head of Tampa Bay, at the mouth of the Hillsborough River

Cigar industry drew a large Cuban, Spanish, and Italian population from the 1880s, generating dense, datable domestic and commercial refuse.

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