Is it legal to collect at Reculver, Kent: Roman fort foreshore, coins and samian from erosion?

Gray area. The fort and church are a Scheduled Monument (English Heritage): no digging or metal detecting on the scheduled area; coins found on the foreshore fall under the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities reporting; loose fossils are tolerated

What can you find at Reculver, Kent: Roman fort foreshore, coins and samian from erosion?

Roman coins, samian and coarse pottery, tile, Iron Age sherds, shark teeth and fossil wood from the Thanet Sands

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Roman fort foreshore, coins and samian from erosion

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Coins and tokens

Sea pottery

Nails and fittings

Also reported: tile, shark teeth and fossil wood from the Thanet Sands.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Saxon Shore fort Regulbium; half the fort has gone into the sea and its wells and rubbish pits erode onto the foreshore.

Archaeologia Cantiana vol 71: after the Jan 1953 flood cliff collapses, 64 Roman coins, a Saxon sceatta, samian and coarse ware were recovered from the foreshore; sea erosion scatters pit contentsView source →