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Dunure shore agates, Ayrshire, Scotland

Agate beach or gravel Documented siteLegal to collect
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Agates and jasperAgates and jasper

Also reported: fortification) weathering from andesite on the foreshore.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain).

Why this spot

Devonian-Carboniferous lava

Classic Ayrshire agate coast south of Ayr.

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