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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 bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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