Is it legal to collect at Salvador, Brazil: Rio Vermelho shore facing the 1668 galleon wreck?

Prohibited, look only. Brazil Lei 3.924/1961 makes archaeological monuments property of the Union under IPHAN; Lei 7.542/1986 vests wreck goods in the Union and bans unlicensed recovery. Loose modern beach glass is not covered

What can you find at Salvador, Brazil: Rio Vermelho shore facing the 1668 galleon wreck?

case gin bottle glass, Portuguese faience, pipe stems, ballast, modern beach glass

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Salvador, Brazil

Rio Vermelho shore facing the 1668 galleon wreck

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Clay pipe stems

Wreck timber

Also reported: Portuguese faience, modern beach glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS photo (Public domain).

Why this spot

Colonial capital of Brazil; the Portuguese galleon Santissimo Sacramento sank on the Banco de Santo Antonio off Rio Vermelho in 1668 with hundreds of Dutch case bottles, bodies and cargo washing onto the beach.

Dialnet / ANPUH papers (Leandro Vieira da Silva) analyse 123 square case gin bottles among 146 glass items from the wreck 6 km off Rio Vermelho and note remains washed onto the beach; beach finds today are inferred from the wreck and the old fishing-port refuseView source →