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Human remains at Wardie
Wardie is fully two miles north from the Castle,
and near Granton.
In this district evidences have been found of the
occupation of the soil at a very remote period by
native tribes. Several fragments of human remains
were discovered in 1846, along the coast of
Wardie, in excavating the foundations for a bridge
of the Granton Railway ; and during some earlier
operations for the same railway, on the 27th
September, 1844, a silver and a copper coin of
Philip II. of Spain were found among a quantity
or human bones, intermingled with sand and shells:
and these at the time were supposed to be a
memento of some great galleon of the Spanish
Armada, cast away upon the rocky coast.
source-Old and New Edinburgh
