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Cameroon, Littoral

Douala Wouri estuary factory shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Woermann factories on the Wouri preceded the German protectorate of 1884, and the Bonanjo quarter kept its colonial core; estuary beach and quarter fringe hold trade refuse.

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