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Buenos Aires

Ensenada saladero and port town

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: 1820s-1920s saladero refuse.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Natural harbour on the Rio de la Plata used by saladeros from the early 1800s and rebuilt around the La Plata port works of the 1880s, with meat-trade refuse in the lowlands.

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