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Puducherry
Karaikal French enclave river quarter
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
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).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
French trading enclave on the Arasalar distributary from 1739 until 1954, shipping rice and cloth; the old French quarter and river landing saw two centuries of colonial refuse.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.