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Rio Grande do Sul
Pelotas charqueada town
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea pottery
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1780s-1900s charqueada refuse.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Wealth capital of the charqueadas, the salt-beef estancias that lined the Arroio Pelotas from the 1780s, whose factory sites and mansion quarter hold dense period refuse.
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