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Leith Docks and the Water of Leith mouth

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersStoneware ginger beers
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: black-glass ale, porter and whisky bottles, ships' glass and clay pipes; Leith and Edinburgh glassworks output including green-glass wine and beer bottles..

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

Why this spot

1849 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Falls within the Edinburgh OS Town Plan survey; a working port for centuries, so the intertidal mud and old dock edges are exceptionally rich.

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