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Rock Pools, Oil Shale and a 400-Year Glass Story Kimmeridge Bay is a fair but fascinating sea glass hunting beach, with the shingle near the slipway and the shale crevices, gravel pockets and rock-pool margins exposed at lower water the main targets. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua and …
Hunting the Jurassic Coast Chesil Beach can be good for sea glass, but the Portland end is the main target rather than the full 18-mile shingle bank. Start at Chesil Cove, where the largest pebbles and high-energy shoreline create temporary ridges, gullies and pockets, then try the much more sheltered Church Ope Cove on Portland’s …
Under the Broadchurch Cliffs West Bay is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, with the strongest areas around the harbour mouth and the shingle of East Beach. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua and amber appearing occasionally and turquoise, cobalt blue, black, lavender and red among the …
Eocene Cliffs, Fossils and Channel Shingle Barton-on-Sea is a fair but rewarding sea glass hunting beach, especially if you combine it with fossil hunting. The best places to search are the shingle pockets between the rock groynes below Marine Drive East, working from the upper strandline through the mid-beach pebble bands as the tide falls. …
Palmerston Forts, Royal Navy History and Solent Shingle Fort Gilkicker is worth trying for sea glass. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with occasional blue and aqua. Search the coarse shingle around the fort and work east towards the old pier around low tide, especially after rougher southwesterly weather. Best hunting stretch: …
Treasure Hunting on the Jurassic Coast Lyme Regis is a fair but fascinating sea glass hunting destination, with Monmouth Beach the main target and Church Cliff and East Cliff good alternatives around lower water. Green, white, and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, …
Purbeck Stone, Victorian Ballast and a Harbour Shore Swanage is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, with Monkey Beach between the Victorian pier and old stone quay the best place to start. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, …
Where the Cliffs Give Up Their Secrets Charmouth is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially on East Beach towards Black Ven, where old cliff-fall boulders, pebble ridges and strandlines can trap glass and pottery linked to the area’s historic clifftop dump. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, …
The Complete Guide to the Jurassic Coast and the Solent Region: Dorset and HampshireBeaches covered: 8Coastlines: Lyme Bay, the Channel and the Solent A glassworks from 1616, and a coast that’s still falling into the sea At Kimmeridge Bay there is a scheduled monument that almost nobody visits for the right reason. Excavations in 1980 …