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Bihar
Patna Ganges opium and grain trade riverfront
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Coins and tokensAlso reported: clay pipes.
Photos 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
Company-era opium agency and grain entrepot on the Ganges, with Golghar granary and a long line of trading ghats; riverfront fill spans the 1780s to the 1930s.
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