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Japan, Hiroshima

Onomichi

Channel waterfront, old shipping quarter

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass
Sea potterySea pottery

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Official port from 1169 (tax-rice shipments), kitamaebune boomtown from 1672, Seto Inland Sea trade channel

850 years of port activity documented; no published finds record, most frontage is modern seawall

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

quay edge dropWakes from the constant ferry traffic

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