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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 …
Hunting Above 400 Years of Industry Prestonpans sits beside one of Scotland’s most important historic industrial landscapes. Morrison’s Haven, Prestongrange glassworks, pottery, coal mining, brickmaking and centuries of harbour activity provide unusually strong historical context and several plausible sources for some of the glass and ceramics found along this shoreline today. Proving the exact origin …
Scotland’s North Sea Gem Cullen Bay is a good sea glass hunting beach, particularly around the rocky eastern end near the harbour, car park and Three Kings sea stacks. White, green and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black and lavender also reported. It’s an accessible beach with lots …
Europe’s Biggest Fishing Fleet and a Thousand Years of Glass Hastings is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around Rock-a-Nore and the Stade at the eastern end of the seafront. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with aqua, blue, amber and turquoise appearing occasionally and cobalt blue, black, lavender and red …
North East Sandy Shore with a Hidden History Seaton Carew can be worth hunting for sea glass, particularly around the pebblier northern end towards Hartlepool Harbour and Middleton Beach. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with amber, pale blue, cobalt and occasional red also reported. It’s a fair rather than prolific hunting …
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 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, …
Gothic Skies, Abbey Views and Frosted Glass Whitby is a good sea glass hunting destination, especially at Tate Hill Beach and along the shoreline towards Sandsend. White, green and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, cobalt, black, lavender, red and pink also reported. Tate Hill is the more concentrated hunt, while …