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Where Henry Tudor Landed, and the Smugglers Did Business Dale is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting beach, with the best areas around the shingle-and-sand transition zones, the southern end of the bay and the pebble pockets beside the harbour structures. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua, amber …
A Coal Port’s Long Goodbye Saundersfoot is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially around the harbour margins, Glen Beach and the rockier sections towards Coppet Hall. Start around the harbour edges and pebble pockets, then work the strandline and harder substrate rather than the broad sandy centre. Green, brown and white are the most …
Coal Port, Bristol Channel and the Hidden Pebble Bay Porthcawl is a fair but worthwhile sea glass hunting area, with Pink Bay the standout spot rather than the main sandy surf beaches. Prioritise the steep pebble bank, sand-to-pebble transition, and rocky foreshore for green, brown, and white glass, with blue, aqua, amber, and turquoise appearing …
Dark Sand, Blue Water and an Industrial Ghost Abereiddy is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially across the dark mid-beach shingle and lower slate foreshore exposed as the tide falls. Green, brown and white are the most common finds, with blue, aqua and amber appearing occasionally and cobalt blue, black, red and orange among …
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 …
The Most Northerly Hunt in Wales Cemaes Bay is a good sea glass hunting beach, with Traeth Bach on the western side of the harbour the main place to search. Green, brown, white, and aqua are the most common finds, with blue, amber, and turquoise appearing occasionally, and cobalt blue and black among the rarer …
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 …
Wales’s Victorian Tip Beach Morfa Beach in Conwy is a good sea glass hunting beach, especially along the shingle band and strandline below the former municipal tip. Green, brown, white and aqua are the most common finds, with blue, amber, turquoise, cobalt, black, lavender, pink and yellow also reported. It’s a more challenging hunt than …