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Peru, Lambayeque

Puerto Eten dead railway pier port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Railway port of the 1870s shipping Lambayeque sugar and rice from an iron pier, defunct since the mid-1900s with pier and locomotives rusting in place.

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