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A Suffolk Harbour Gem With History in Every Find Southwold is a good sea glass hunting beach, but The Denes, south of Gun Hill, is the place to focus on rather than the main pier beach. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black and lavender also …
Where the Normans Landed and the Smugglers Ran Pevensey Bay is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, especially around the Sea Road access where the coarse shingle ridges and groynes create easy-to-read hunting zones. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt …
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 …
Beachcombing at the West Wight’s Best-Kept Secret Fort Victoria is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, especially in the loose gravel and shingle pockets between the rocks east of the fort. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, lavender, …
Scotland’s Underrated Firth of Forth Find Musselburgh is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, especially on East Beach beyond Fisherrow Harbour towards the River Esk. White, green and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black, lavender and occasional red also reported. It’s an easy, beginner-friendly hunt where …
Hunting in the Shadow of the Forth Bridge South Queensferry is a good sea glass hunting beach for experienced hunters, especially around Hawes Pier and the rocky foreshore east of the harbour. White, green, brown, and amber are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt, black, lavender, and red …
The Antrim Coast’s Hidden Gem Glenarm is a good beginner-friendly sea glass beach, especially around the river mouth and harbour end where pebble ridges, wet shingle and small current-fed pockets give you the best places to search. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with pale blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, …
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, …