[1] Around three thousand years ago, in the Bronze Age a hoard of weapons, such as swords and spears, as well as other artifacts was deliberately destroyed before being deposited in the waters of Duddingston Loch.

[5] The loch used to be a popular venue for skaters, with the Edinburgh Skating Club meeting there, but is now rarely sufficiently iced.

Thomson's Tower, designed by William Henry Playfair in 1824, served the society and still stands on the north side of the loch.

[9] As well as open water, scrub, and woodland the loch has the most extensive bed of common reed Phragmites australis in the Lothians.

Other breeding species include Canada goose, mute swan, tufted duck, great crested grebe, sparrowhawk, sedge warbler and reed bunting.