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Algarve, Faro
Olhao canning-port waterfront
Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1880s-1930s cannery tins, crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Cubist fishing town that industrialised sardine and tuna canning from the late 1800s; cannery-era refuse in shore fill facing the Ria Formosa.
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