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Thailand, Phang Nga

Takua Pa old tin-dredging town riverbanks

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1850s-1930s Chinese wares, opium-era finds.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Center of the Phang Nga tin belt where dredges and Chinese labor reworked the river flats into the 1900s; the Sino-Portuguese old town and tailing banks mark the boom.

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