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India & Indian Ocean, Puducherry

Pondicherry

Rock Beach groyne pockets

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

1674-1940

280 years of French colonial glass entered here; the 1761 British razing dumped a town seaward. No documented finds - inference.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Cyclone season Nov-Dec is also the productive window

Keep exploring nearby

More spots in this area.

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