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Rare Colours in the East Neuk Crail is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially for patient hunters searching the rocky lower shore around Roome Bay. Most finds are small, well-frosted pieces in green, white and brown, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black and lavender also reported. Crail is particularly interesting for micro sea …
Two Lighthouses, Three Beaches, One of the Best Days Out Near Bristol Portishead is a good sea glass hunting destination, with Black Nore the strongest of the three beaches and Woodhill Bay and Sugar Loaf making useful stops along the way. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and …
Where the Iron Men Watch You Hunt Crosby Beach is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially north of the main Another Place sculptures, where Blitz rubble, shingle and architectural debris create a completely different hunting environment from the open sand farther south. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, …
History Washed Ashore Alnmouth is a good sea glass hunting beach, particularly around the rocky northern end, the estuary margins and the strandline after rougher weather. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber and occasional rarer colours also reported. It’s a reliable rather than prolific beach, but its estuary …
Hunting Below the Glass Capital of England Marsden Beach is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the rock pools, pebble pockets and cave entrances exposed around Marsden Rock at lower tides. Green, white and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black, lavender and occasional red also reported. …
The Durham Coast’s Dark Horse Blackhall Rocks is a good sea glass hunting beach for more experienced hunters, especially around the cave mouths, rock pools and trapped shingle exposed at lower tides. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and rarer colours including cobalt, black, lavender, red, and yellow also …
Where Suffolk’s Wild Edge Begins Pakefield is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially where Lowestoft’s managed sandy frontage gives way to rougher shingle and pebble foreshore. Start at the last wooden groyne and work south, concentrating on the upper shingle bank, wrack line and pebble pockets rather than the open sand. Green, brown, and …
History in Your Hands on the Medway Upnor can be a worthwhile place to look for sea glass and pottery, especially along the shingle and muddy foreshore below the village and around the castle side of the Medway. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber and occasional rarer colours …
East Coast Beaches from Ramsey to Port Erin Why the Isle of Man deserves a place on your sea glass map The Isle of Man isn’t the first name on most sea glass hunters’ lists. But it should be. Sitting in the middle of the Irish Sea, roughly equidistant between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, …
Stevenston, Girvan & Ballantrae Best For: Why the Ayrshire coast deserves a place on the sea glass map Most Scottish sea glass guides stop at the East Neuk of Fife. A few mention Cullen or Musselburgh. Almost none head west. Which is a shame, because the Ayrshire coast is doing something quietly remarkable: producing consistent, …