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Bottle Digging in UK & Ireland
155 researched sites, each with an access tier, evidence tier and site history.
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- Aberdeen · foreshore · Permission required
- Aberdeen: granite Dee-and-Don city · foreshore · Permission required
- Abereiddy, Pembrokeshire · foreshore · Open / legal
- Askam-in-Furness: ironworks slag pier · dump · Gray area
- Ayr · foreshore · Permission required
- Ballycastle: Pans Rocks glassworks shore · foreshore · Open / legal
- Barnstaple: Taw estuary town · foreshore · Permission required
- Belfast: Lagan foreshore · foreshore · Permission required
- Berwick-upon-Tweed: Tweed-mouth quays · river · Permission required
- Bideford: Torridge tobacco port · foreshore · Permission required
- Blackrock, Co Louth: promenade sea glass · foreshore · Open / legal
- Bo'ness: Forth shipbreaking foreshore · foreshore · Gray area
- Boston: Witham Fen port · river · Permission required
- Boulmer, Northumberland · foreshore · Open / legal
- Bowling Harbour hulks (Clyde) · foreshore · Restricted
- Bray north beach landfill (CLOSED) · dump · Prohibited / view only
- Bridgwater: Parrett brick-and-tile port · foreshore · Permission required
- Bristol: Sea Mills, Trym mouth (Avon) · river · Gray area
- Broseley: clay pipe town gardens and fields · dump · Permission required
- Broughty Ferry beach (Tay) · foreshore · Gray area
- Buckley: pottery-town waste mounds · dump · Permission required
- Bulverhythe: Amsterdam wreck (look, don't touch) · foreshore · Restricted
- Burntisland: Fife shipyard sands · foreshore · Open / legal
- Charmouth West Beach (Black Ven feed) · foreshore · Open / legal
- Chester: Dee Roman walled city · river · Permission required
- Clyde: Newshot Island / Erskine boat graveyard · mudflat · Gray area
- Cobh (Queenstown): Cork Harbour emigrant port · foreshore · Permission required
- Cork Harbour: Whitepoint / Passage West · foreshore · Restricted
- Cramond / Almond mouth, Edinburgh · foreshore · Gray area
- Crimdon: carnival-glass beach · foreshore · Open / legal
- Crosby Blitz Beach (Hall Rd-Hightown) · foreshore · Gray area
- Deadman's Island, The Swale (no landing) · mudflat · Prohibited / view only
- Dell Quay: Chichester Harbour port · mudflat · Gray area
- Drogheda: Boyne quays · river · Permission required
- Dublin: Poolbeg / Shelly Banks / Irishtown · foreshore · Restricted
- Dumfries: Nith Solway town · river · Permission required
- Dundalk: Castletown estuary town · foreshore · Permission required
- Dundee · foreshore · Permission required
- Dunwich: drowned medieval port beach · foreshore · Open / legal
- East Tilbury bottle beach (Coalhouse-Mucking) · foreshore · Restricted
- Edinburgh: Leith/Granton/Seafield foreshore · foreshore · Clean
- Falmouth · foreshore · Permission required
- Faversham Creek & Hollowshore · river · Gray area
- Galway: Corrib & Claddagh · river · Permission required
- Glasgow / Central Scotland dumps + Clyde · dump · Permission required
- Glenarm Bay, Co Antrim · foreshore · Gray area
- Gloucester UK · river · Permission required
- Gloucester: Severn dock city · river · Permission required
- Goole: Ouse canal port · river · Permission required
- Gravesend: lower-Thames foreshore · foreshore · Permission required
- Great Yarmouth · foreshore · Permission required
- Greenock / Port Glasgow shore (prospect) · foreshore · Gray area
- Grimsby: Humber fishing port · foreshore · Permission required
- Guernsey: Havelet Bay / Castle Cornet · foreshore · Gray area
- Half Moon Bay, Heysham (Morecambe Bay) · foreshore · Open / legal
- Hartlepool Headland (Block Sands) · foreshore · Open / legal
- Hastings: Stade fishing beach · foreshore · Permission required
- Hayle: Copperhouse scoria slag shore · dump · Restricted
- Hull: Humber foreshore · foreshore · Permission required
- Inverkeithing: shipbreakers' bay foreshore · foreshore · Gray area
- Jackfield: Severn bank tile and pottery waste · dump · Gray area
- Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset · foreshore · Gray area
- King's Lynn · mudflat · Permission required
- King's Lynn: Great Ouse & Wash · foreshore · Permission required
- Kinsale: harbour foreshore · foreshore · Permission required
- Kirkcaldy: Pathhead Sands / Seafield · foreshore · Gray area
- Lamberhurst: HER-recorded bottle dump, Kent · dump · Permission required
- Leigh-on-Sea: Two Tree Island tip foreshore · dump · Restricted
- Limerick: Shannon quays · river · Permission required
- Lincoln: Brayford Pool & Witham · river · Permission required
- Liverpool: Cast Iron Shore & Otterspool · foreshore · Gray area
- Liverpool: Otterspool promenade tip shore · dump · Gray area
- Lydney Harbour, Forest of Dean · foreshore · Gray area
- Lyme Regis: The Spittles tip erosion · foreshore · Open / legal
- Maldon: Hythe Quay barge shore (Blackwater) · river · Gray area
- Maryport: Solway coal port · foreshore · Permission required
- Medway estuary (Rochester/Chatham) · foreshore · Permission required
- Minster Leas, Isle of Sheppey · foreshore · Open / legal
- Moray coast tips: Nairn to Hopeman · foreshore · Gray area
- Morfa Conwy: Victorian tip beach · foreshore · Open / legal
- Morrison's Haven / Prestongrange · foreshore · Gray area
- Mundesley, Norfolk · foreshore · Open / legal
- Nantgarw: China Works waste tips (museum) · dump · Prohibited / view only
- New Brighton: Mersey-mouth resort beach · foreshore · Open / legal
- New Ross: Barrow inland port · river · Permission required
- Newport: Severn-shore Victorian estuary dump · foreshore · Restricted
- Newport: Usk mud & Pillgwenlly · river · Permission required
- Penzance: Mount's Bay port · foreshore · Permission required
- Perth: Tay quays · river · Permission required
- Pin Mill barge graveyard, River Orwell · foreshore · Restricted
- Plymouth UK · foreshore · Permission required
- Poole: Baiter reclaimed shore · dump · Gray area
- Poole: Baiter reclaimed shore (Parkstone Bay) · foreshore · Gray area
- Portishead: Battery Point (Bristol blue wash) · foreshore · Gray area
- Portobello: Edinburgh resort sands · foreshore · Open / legal
- Portobello: pottery-town beach wash · foreshore · Clean
- Portsmouth UK · foreshore · Permission required
- Purton hulks (look, don't touch) · foreshore · Restricted
- Robin Hood's Bay scaurs · foreshore · Open / legal
- Rothesay-Ascog shore, Isle of Bute · foreshore · Gray area
- Scarborough: spa & fishing harbour · foreshore · Permission required
- Seaham Hall Beach: Londonderry bottleworks · foreshore · Open / legal
- Seaton Sluice: Royal Hartley Bottleworks shore · dump · Clean
- Shrewsbury: Severn loop town · river · Permission required
- Sittingbourne: Milton Creek brickfield ash shore · dump · Permission required
- Sligo: Finisklin legacy landfill (do not dig) · dump · Prohibited / view only
- South Queensferry shore (Forth) · foreshore · Gray area
- Southampton · foreshore · Permission required
- Stevenston / Ardeer beach, Ayrshire · foreshore · Gray area
- Stirling: Forth crossing town · river · Permission required
- Stirling: Forth tidal head · river · Permission required
- Stoke-on-Trent: Etruria canal shraff banks · dump · Gray area
- Streedagh Strand: Armada wrecks (no touching) · foreshore · Prohibited / view only
- Sunderland: glass city · foreshore · Permission required
- Swansea/Cardiff tips · dump · Permission required
- Swansea: Tawe copper port · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames estuary: Crossness-Erith dump wash · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames estuary: Rainham-Coldharbour Point · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames: Bankside (Tate Modern reach) · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames: Battersea reach · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Bermondsey Wall (below the Bridge) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Blackwall Reach & the Isle · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Brentford (Brent confluence) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Chelsea (Cadogan / Battersea Bridge) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Chiswick (Corney Reach) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Deptford (Creek & Dockyard reach) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Greenwich (ORNC foreshore) · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames: Isle of Dogs (Saunders Ness) · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames: Limehouse (Limekiln Dock) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Millbank / Westminster reach · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Putney reach · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Queenhithe dock (no-search zone) · foreshore · Prohibited / view only
- Thames: Rotherhithe (Cherry Garden reach) · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames: Vauxhall (foreshore) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Wandsworth (Wandle mouth) · foreshore · Permission required
- Thames: Wapping (Pelican / New Crane Stairs) · foreshore · Restricted
- Thames: Woolwich (Arsenal reach) · foreshore · Permission required
- Topsham: Exe estuary Dutch-trade quay · river · Gray area
- Truro: Cornish river-port city · foreshore · Permission required
- Vartry River, Wicklow town (surface only) · river · Restricted
- Waterford: Suir quays · river · Permission required
- Wexford: Slaney Norse harbour town · foreshore · Permission required
- Wexford: harbour mudflats · mudflat · Permission required
- Weymouth: Georgian resort harbour · foreshore · Permission required
- Whitby · foreshore · Permission required
- Whitehaven · foreshore · Permission required
- Whitehead-Carrickfergus shore, Belfast Lough · foreshore · Gray area
- Whitley Bay / St Mary's Island · foreshore · Open / legal
- Whitstable: oyster-town foreshore · foreshore · Permission required
- Wick harbour / South Head, Caithness · foreshore · Gray area
- Wigan & NW inland tips (permission scene) · dump · Permission required
- Wisbech: Fenland Nene port · river · Permission required
- Wootton Creek / Fishbourne, Isle of Wight · mudflat · Permission required
- Yorkshire Victorian tips (Leeds/Sheffield belt) · dump · Permission required
- Youghal: Blackwater-mouth quays · foreshore · Permission required