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Liguria

Altare Ligurian glass village

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: reference only, 1600s-1900s cullet and glass rejects in works contexts.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Mountain glass village whose guild predates Murano's fame, working until 1978; village-edge tips hold centuries of cullet and rejects.

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