Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells
Excavation of famous site solves 200-year mystery and sheds light on history of the growing city For more than 200 years, the creation of Edinburgh’s famous Mound has remained something of a mystery. Built on the boggy bed of a drained loch in the late 18th and early 19th century, the artificial mound connected the…