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A Medieval Harbour with Six Centuries of Trade in the Shingle Port Isaac is a fair but atmospheric sea glass hunting spot, especially around the harbour-side shingle, slipway edges and rocky pockets exposed as the tide falls. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and amber appearing occasionally, and cobalt …
Hunting in the Shadow of St Michael’s Mount Marazion is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around East Beach, Chapel Rock, the harbour-side rock pools and the pebble sections exposed towards lower tide. Green, white and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber and turquoise appearing occasionally and cobalt blue, black, …
Cornwall’s Industrial Port and the Glass It Left Behind . Portreath is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the harbour wall, tidal pool margins, western rock pockets and Smuggler’s Cove at lower water. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, …
Slate Cliffs, a Vanishing Beach and Glass from a Working Heritage Coast Trebarwith Strand is a good sea glass hunting beach for experienced hunters, especially around the slate rock platforms, crevices and rock-pool edges exposed at lower water. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black and …
Land’s End, a Fishing Harbour and the Rocky Road to Glass Sennen Cove is a good sea glass hunting beach, with the harbour rocks beside the slipway the area I’d prioritise first. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, and lavender …
Holy Wells, Ancient Dunes and One of Cornwall’s Easiest Glass Hunts Holywell Bay is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the shingle patches, northern rock pools and cave area exposed at lower tides. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, cobalt, black and lavender also reported. Today at …
Pilchards, Painters and a Thousand Years of Maritime Waste St Ives Harbour is a good sea glass hunting spot, especially if you treat the area as three separate hunts: the main Harbour Beach strandline, the rockier Bamaluz cove and the shingle and rock pockets around Smeaton’s Pier. Green, brown, and white are the most common …
The Silted Harbour and the Sea Pottery Beach Pentewan is better for sea pottery than sea glass. The best hunting is at the northern village end, around the old harbour, St Austell River mouth, shingle patches, and pebble pockets, rather than across the wide sandy beach to the south. White, green and brown are the …
Gyllyngvase, Swanpool and Maenporth Falmouth is a good area for sea glass hunting, especially if you treat Gyllyngvase, Swanpool and Maenporth as one three-beach route. Start with the rocky margins and rock pools at Gyllyngvase, check the shingle bar and rock edges at Swanpool, then spend the most time at Maenporth around its rock pools, …
Britain’s Most Southerly Port and the Shingle That Catches Everything Porthleven is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially along the shingle patches immediately east of the harbour and farther along towards Blue Buoy Steps. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber and turquoise appearing occasionally and cobalt blue, …