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Firth of Forth Victorian tips

Bo'ness / Musselburgh

Old dump ground, tidal Documented siteOpen

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1860s-1900s Scottish town refuse tipped on the foreshore: Codds, torpedo sodas, black glass

First-person magazine writeup + multiple filmed digs.

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