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Kollam pepper and cashew port waterfront

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Photos 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.

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