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Calicut spice trade shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: British-era glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

The Malabar pepper port where the Portuguese first landed in 1498, later a British district capital; the old beach landing and warehouse belt saw centuries of open-roadstead trade.

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