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Britain’s Best Beach Has a Secret Runswick Bay is a good sea glass hunting beach, particularly away from the sandy centre where rock pools, boulder fields and rougher foreshore appear towards Hob Holes and Kettleness as the tide falls. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing …
Yorkshire’s Victorian Treasure Coast Saltburn is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially east of the pier where the broad sandy beach gives way to rougher pebble and shingle below Huntcliff. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, lavender, and red …
Smugglers, Fossils and Frosted Glass Robin Hood’s Bay is a good sea glass hunting beach, particularly around the rocky reefs, rock pools and shingle exposed at lower tides. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black and lavender also reported. It’s not as prolific as Seaham, but …
Harbour Town, Shipwreck Cove and Three Beaches Worth Hunting Ilfracombe is a good sea glass hunting area, with three different beaches worth searching: Wildersmouth, Raparee Cove and Hele Bay. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, cobalt and occasional rarer colours also reported. Lower tides are especially useful because they …
A Medieval Harbour with Six Centuries of Trade in the Shingle Port Isaac is a fair but atmospheric sea glass hunting spot, especially around the harbour-side shingle, slipway edges and rocky pockets exposed as the tide falls. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, and amber appearing occasionally, and cobalt …
An Ancient Port with Centuries of History in the Shingle Watchet is a good sea glass hunting beach for intermediate hunters, especially on the rocky foreshore immediately east of the harbour and across the wider shingle-and-rock shelves exposed at lower water. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and …
Victorian Pebble Ridge and Atlantic Swell Westward Ho! is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the southern rock pools, shingle pockets at the base of the pebble ridge, and the quieter Northam Burrows end. Green, brown, and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt …
Silver Mines, Smugglers and Two of North Devon’s Quietest Beaches Combe Martin and nearby Hele Bay are both worth hunting for sea glass, with the best ground around Hele Bay’s shingle and rock pools, the rocky margins towards Blythes Cove and the pebble-and-crevice terrain at Newberry Beach. Green, brown and white are the most common …
Hunting in the Shadow of St Michael’s Mount Marazion is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around East Beach, Chapel Rock, the harbour-side rock pools and the pebble sections exposed towards lower tide. Green, white and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber and turquoise appearing occasionally and cobalt blue, black, …
Atlantic Storm Glass on the North Cornwall Coast Porthtowan is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the tidal rock pool, rocky margins, cave entrances and mixed shingle exposed at lower water. Green, white, and brown are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue, black, lavender, …