Rock Hounding for MAGICAL Hag Stones and Beach Treasures In Stinky Haven

Join us as we venture along Scotland's East coast, hunting Hag Stones in a rock-hounders haven! Amazing pebbles, sea glass, beads, and we tell you about Hag Stones from the Greeks to the Celts!
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Rockhounding haven!
04:32 Hag, adder or Druid, Stone?
06:00 Big wishing stone and a promise
06:30 Beautiful Sea Glass
08:19 A wee gem and a sea creature lure
09:43 Incredibly tiny blue bead
10:36 Stinking Haven
11:30 A moment of peace (New, on Sunday, no music, just sounds of the sea)
13:43 Swing-top Stopper - cool find
15:45 Hag Stones: a short history from Ancient Greece to the Celts.
23:02 lovely mermaids tears!
23:32 A wish for you all



Join us in Angus, looking out across the North Sea in a place once called, Stinking Haven! The natural harbour here is a rock-hounding dream - so many beautiful pebbles, glistening in the sunlight, warming the golden sands of this gorgeous bay.

We decide to head off North to see what we can find. Up this far, tucked away from nearby settlements, we find our only companion to be an inquisitive seal, maybe its a selkie, who pops up to see what we are up to before swimming off out of sight.


Among our first finds are some hag stones; wishing stones and really lovely sea glass - we have not given any thought to hag stones before, so we decide to see how many we can find and what we can find out about them!


With fishing boats passing this shore every day, its no surprise to find fishing line - but there is a tiny wee gem inside the tangle - a bright blue glass bead is a real treasure here! All in, its a great day - lovely weather, a peaceful place to be in, and lots of wee treasures to take home and make things with!


We look at what can be said about hag stones - there is so much, we really only touch the surface of the subject - they are so cool! Pliny the elder provides our earliest source of these wee curiosities, but there is a wealth of folkloric knowledge spread across Europe and the Celtic world!


Today is the first of our new format videos - so be sure to check out the second part on Sunday! This week in Sunday's video: we round up our finds, Nicole makes some bespoke jewellery and we take a moment to look at this area without any accompanying music... For everyone who enjoys the music, we will continue to bring you plenty of that in our Friday videos!

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