Archaeology Notes

Event ID 737728

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27NE 121 26987 76512

Location formerly cited as NT 2699 7650.

See also NT27NE 57.00 and NT27NE 1566.

Not to be confused with dry dock built by Robert Dryburgh in 1774 (NT c. 268 764), for which see NT27NE 1568.

This monument consists of the buried fabric of a masonry dry dock, with associated working areas and quay walls. It is situated on the west bank of the Water of Leith, and only the cope-stones are currently exposed.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 May 1993.

This dry dock, the first in Leith, was built by John Sime and his son in their yard next to Glasshouse Quay. It is dated to 1771.

[Original petition cited].

S Mowat [1994].