Scotland
Leith Docks and the Water of Leith mouth
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Stoneware ginger beers
Codd and soda bottlesAlso 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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