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Tanzania, Tabora

Tabora caravan and railway town

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Trade beadsTrade beads
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: caravan-era refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Unknown (CC BY 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

The great inland caravan crossroads of the 1800s ivory and slave routes, later a German boma and Central Line railway town, with long-lived trade middens.

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