The District Officer’s house to the east of the town, just outside the line of the old walls, has been built on the ancient refuse heaps, and it is possible to pick up around the house quantities of fragments of Celadon porcelain, and pieces of Arab pottery and glass.
Some 200 meters east of the start of the current port pier, near the ruined Marine Force building, there is a very important deposit of Chinese porcelain shards relating to the period included between the 16th and first half of the 20th century, and Japanese porcelain from the 18th-20th centuries, i.e. a relatively late period, with the exception of a possible fragment of a Qingbai bowl (before the 15th century).
Above the beach, an embankment (1.5 meters high) parallel to the beach (east-west oriented) bears witness to contemporary earthworks; the land brought back to the sea acts as a dam against high tides. The Marine Force building being built on it, this earthwork dates from the British era at the latest (the protectorate of which began in 1884). The fact of encountering a large quantity of shards at this location, in a visibly reworked area, indicates the possible presence, under this fill, of ancient structures.
