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Pans Rocks glassworks shore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: coal from the collier trade.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Hugh Boyd's 18th-century industrial port: colliery, pottery, salt pans and a glassworks by the strand, the iron salt-pan relic at Pans Rocks still juts into the sea

The 1750s glassworks, salt pans and harbour are documented; sea glass finds at the Pans Rocks end are local beachcomber reports

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Atlantic swell and rips off the Margy mouthSlippery rocks and the Devil's Churn at Pans Rocks

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