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Edinburgh (Old Town and Water of Leith)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Codd and Hamilton (torpedo) sodas.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1849 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Covered by the OS Town Plan of Edinburgh; the Water of Leith gulleys, old bridges and the Forth shore below the city are the classic bottle-era catchments.

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