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Dylan Thomas’s Town and a Victorian Shipbuilder’s Shore New Quay is a fair but rewarding sea glass hunting beach, with Dolau Beach and the harbour-wall margins the best places to search. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, and lavender among …
Where Lead Ore and the Celtic Sea Left Their Mark Aberystwyth is a fair sea glass hunting destination, with the best ground around the castle headland, Harbour Beach and the rockier margins of North Beach. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, …
Six Centuries of Harbour Glass in a Medieval Town Tenby is a fair but rewarding sea glass hunting destination, with the strongest ground around Castle Beach and the harbour margins exposed at lower water. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, …
Hunting the Shore of Copperopolis Bracelet Bay is a fair but interesting sea glass hunting beach, especially around the pebble band, limestone gullies and lower rocky foreshore exposed at bigger tides. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, and lavender among …
Edinburgh’s Industrial Shoreline Portobello is a fair but fascinating sea glass hunting beach, with the best ground around the Figgate Burn mouth, the wooden groynes and the rockier Joppa end. White, green, and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, lavender, and red among …
Britain’s First Seaside Resort Scarborough North Bay is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, especially around the rocky northern end near Scalby Mills and the Sea Life Centre. White, green, and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and amber appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, and lavender among the rarer …
The Old Town Shore Hartlepool Headland is worth hunting for sea glass, especially along North Sands and around Middleton Beach. North Sands is the main target, with a huge low-tide foreshore broken up by old pipes, rubble and industrial remains, while Middleton adds a smaller historic dumping-ground hunt. Green, brown and white are the everyday …
The Gem of the Norfolk Coast Cromer is a fair sea glass hunting beach, with the best ground usually east of the pier where the sandy beach gives way to shingle, chalk and rougher foreshore. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and amber appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, …
Sandy Cove, Palmerston Forts and Five Centuries of Naval History Bovisand is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, especially around the rock-pool margins, coarser shingle at the back of the cove and the old landing-stage area exposed at lower water. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, …
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 …