Is it legal to collect at Dunwich: drowned medieval port beach?

Legal to collect. Open beach walking and shingle combing are fine; Greyfriars above is a Scheduled Monument, so no digging at the cliff, and any bones eroding from the lost churchyards must be left and reported

What can you find at Dunwich: drowned medieval port beach?

hag stones, sea glass, coal, after storms: worked stone or medieval debris (report, do not keep human remains)

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Dunwich

Drowned medieval port beach

Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glass

Flint and stone tools

Also reported: hag stones, coal, do not keep human remains).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Once a rival of London with churches and quays, lost to the sea from the 1287 storms; the medieval town lies offshore, the churchyard edge still erodes from the cliff

Sonar surveys 2008-2012 mapped the drowned churches and worked stone; casual beach finds of medieval material are rare and mostly post-storm