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Alagoas

Penedo Sao Francisco river port town

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Photos 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.

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