Kerala
Kollam pepper and cashew port waterfront
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Old bottles
Coins and tokensPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Ancient pepper port worked in turn by Portuguese, Dutch and British, later the cashew capital of Travancore; Tangasseri and the old port shore carry layered trade refuse.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.