The Walking East Lothian blog says that one famous local legend is that of the fisherman Skipper Thomson, the pilot at Aberlady, who was lost in a storm. Not long after, his wooden leg washed up nearby and was handed to his widow, who kept it on her mantelpiece to her dying day.
It is a maritime tale in the group of stories of returned remains and tokens of the drowned. No date or record of Thomson has been found in the sources consulted, so the legend is kept here with a single source and no attempt to make more of it.
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