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Parana, Paraná

Antonina bay port town

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1800s-1930s mate-trade refuse, glass.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Colonial-era port at the head of Paranagua bay that boomed with the mate trade in the 1800s and faded when shipping concentrated downstream, freezing its waterfront.

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