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Balasore early European factories on the Burhabalang
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Coins and tokens
Old bottlesAlso reported: pipe fragments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Seventeenth-century English, Dutch and Danish factories stood on the silting Burhabalang river before Calcutta eclipsed the port; factory-era ground lies under the old town riverbank.
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