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Ivory Coast, Comoé District
Grand-Bassam first colonial capital quarter
Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
First capital of the French colony until yellow fever drove it out around 1900, its lagoon-side quartier France now a UNESCO town of arcaded ruins.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.