Is it legal to collect at Yorktown VA: York River wreck waterfront (eyes-only)?

Restricted. The beach is county-run and swimming is fine, but the offshore wrecks are a protected state archaeological zone and surrounding land is Colonial NHP; Virginia Antiquities Act covers river-bottom artifacts, so colonial material is eyes-only

What can you find at Yorktown VA: York River wreck waterfront (eyes-only)?

eyes-only: 18th-century pottery and glass shards after storms, wreck timbers reported offshore, siege earthworks

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Yorktown VA

York River wreck waterfront (eyes-only)

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea pottery

Wreck timber

Also reported: siege earthworks.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), NPS photo (Public domain).

Why this spot

Colonial tobacco port and 1781 siege site; Cornwallis's scuttled fleet lies just off the public beach and the town held a famous colonial pottery factory

The Yorktown Wrecks and the 'poor potter' kiln waster deposits are professionally documented; beach finds by the public are anecdotal