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Silver-export railway port

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Boom-era port refuse..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1860 trade / settlement era

Terminus of Chile's first railway, silver export

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