Scotland
Rothesay harbour, Isle of Bute
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea pottery
Stoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesAlso 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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