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Carmen de Patagones frontier river town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: fort-era refuse.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Oldest European settlement in Patagonia, founded 1779 on the Rio Negro with cave dwellings, a fort and a salt and hide trade that ran through the 1800s.

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