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Leiria District, Leiria

Marinha Grande royal glass town

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1700s-1900s cullet.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Portugal's glass capital since the royal factory of 1748; pine-forest tips and works dumps hold two centuries of cullet and rejects.

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