Florida
Tampa, Hillsborough County
Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Codd and soda bottles
Coins and tokensAlso 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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