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Penedo Sao Francisco river port town
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottles
Coins and tokensPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Colonial port commanding the lower Sao Francisco, shipping sugar and cotton past its baroque churches; river frontage holds long trade layers.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.