Is it legal to collect at Haven Beach VA: Mathews County artifact shore?

Gray area. Haven Beach is public county shoreline; sea glass is fine, but Virginia Antiquities Act protects artifacts on state-owned bottom and Bethel Beach is a Natural Area Preserve with seasonal bird closures, so keep artifacts eyes-only and check signage

What can you find at Haven Beach VA: Mathews County artifact shore?

sea glass, 17th-19th c. pottery and pipe fragments (look, record, leave), shark teeth, arrowheads eyes-only

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East, Virginia

Haven Beach VA

Mathews County artifact shore

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glass

Sea pottery

Shark teeth

Also reported: record, leave), arrowheads eyes-only.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

Eroding lower-bay shoreline of colonial-era Mathews County, shedding 17th- to 19th-century material, sea glass and fossils onto public beaches

Beachcombing Magazine account by a decade-long local hunter documents sea glass, colonial pipes, bottle glass and stone tools on Haven, Aaron's and Bethel beaches