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Chile, Los Ríos Region

Corral fort-ringed bay port of Valdivia

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

The fortified outer harbour of Valdivia, stormed by Cochrane in 1820, later a German-era trade port with Chile's first blast furnace of 1906; bay shore holds layered refuse.

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