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Tranquebar Danish trading post

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Clay pipe stemsClay pipe stems
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: 1700s-1840s Danish and Dutch glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Danish India's principal post from 1620 to 1845, a walled town around Fort Dansborg whose seafront streets and glacis hold two centuries of European occupation refuse.

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