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Pelotas charqueada town

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also 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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