Is it legal to collect at St George's, Bermuda: Building Bay below Alexandra Battery?

Prohibited, look only. Bermuda National Parks Act 1986 and Parks Regulations prohibit removing sand, rocks, shells, coral and sea glass from park beaches; airport security and cruise gangways confiscate beach material. Look, photograph, leave it

What can you find at St George's, Bermuda: Building Bay below Alexandra Battery?

black glass, pottery sherds, Codd and Patterson soda bottle pieces, stoppers, amber and green glass

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St George's

St George's, Bermuda

Building Bay below Alexandra Battery

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Codd and soda bottles

Also reported: stoppers, amber and green glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Four centuries of ships using St George's Harbour left bottles, jars and ballast glass; Sea Venture wrecked off this point in 1609; cove below an 1860s battery traps the glass.

AFAR and the Bermuda sea glass guide document a cove blanketed in amber, green and white glass with pottery sherds and a glass-filled cave reachable at low tide; Sea Glass Journal reports black glass and two stoppers in five minutes at Alexandra Battery BeachView source →