Khambhat (Cambay): agate bead workshops & Gulf shore

Where: India & Indian Ocean · Asia · approx. 22.31, 72.62 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: living Harappan-descended agate and carnelian bead industry, working stone hauled from the Rajpipla hills for some 4,000 years

What turns up: buy-side: banded agate, carnelian, rough nodules, drilled beads; workshop visits and heating/knapping demos

Access: Open / legal.

Buy rough agate, carnelian and finished beads openly from workshops. Do not dig anywhere near old mounds: anything over 100 years old falls under India's AMASR Act and antiquity export is prohibited

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.