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Rothesay harbour, Isle of Bute

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: black-glass whisky, Codd and Hamilton sodas and clay pipes around the harbour; heavy Victorian and Edwardian tourist-era refuse in the bay mud..

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

Why this spot

1862 Ordnance Survey town plan era

Covered by the OS Town Plan of Rothesay; a premier Clyde steamer resort, so the harbour and bay collected huge volumes of bottle-era waste.

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