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Peru, Arequipa
Mollendo railway port
Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: railway refuse.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Terminus of the Southern Railway to Arequipa from 1871 and Peru's southern port until Matarani opened in 1941, with wool-trade and railway refuse above the surf shore.
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