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Middle East, Raʼs al Khaymah

UAE

Jazirat al Hamra pearling town flats

Tidal mudflat Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Early-20th-c rose-water.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900-1968

[doc-site] The last intact pearling town in the Gulf, abandoned wholesale in 1968 - household glass of the pearling and early-oil decades is near-certain. No documented bottle hunting; restoration is closing the window.

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