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Uses evidence from excavations throughout Leith along with a map from 1560 showing the fortifications and siege trenches created around Leith in order to plot the remaining ditches of the fortifications more accurately.

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This page is a summary of: The 1560 fortifications and siege of Leith: archaeological evidence for a new transcription of the cartographic evidence, Post-Medieval Archaeology, May 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00794236.2015.1123442.
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