A group of divers have uncovered a cargo of historic Glasgow pottery after discovering a shipwreck off Scotland’s west coast.
Graeme Bruce, a 65-year-old diver from Oban, made the find in July 2024, about a mile from Lamlash Bay on the Isle of Arran.
The wreck is believed to be that of the SS Eagle, an early steamboat en route to Northern Ireland, which sank in 1859 after a collision with another vessel, resulting in the deaths of 11 people.
Graeme, a retired engineer, and a team of seven other divers were around 53 metres below sea level when they came across the wreck, which was strewn with pottery.
Among the artefacts recovered were pieces of Bell’s Pottery, first produced in Glasgow in the early 1840s.
Amazing find!