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Gabon, Estuaire
Libreville freed-slave settlement estuary shore
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Coins and tokensPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Founded in 1849 for freed slaves on the Gabon estuary, later the okoume timber roadstead of French Equatorial Africa; old shoreline quarters carry colonial refuse.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.