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UK & Ireland, Scotland
Burn Anne, Galston, Ayrshire
Blue agates
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Agates and jasper
Crystals and mineralsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Teerui (Public domain), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: classic Scottish agate stream, celebrated since Victorian lapidary days for blue-grey banded agates weathered from Old Red Sandstone lavas
A named classic in the Scottish agate literature (Macpherson's Agates and mineral databases); stream-gravel agates still found by patient searchers
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Slippery stream bouldersSpate flows after rain
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