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Romania, Mehedinți County

Orsova Iron Gates bay shoreline

Riverbank Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: crockery.

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

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Old Habsburg border port town was flooded by the 1970s Iron Gates dam; low water on the relocated town's bay can expose displaced old material.

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