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Shorelarking
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Aka hpsvanessa - here for beachcombing and drift archaeology. Find me as @shorelarking on insta. 🏳️‍⚧️
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#SaturdayShard pretty sure that’s a wee butterfly on this welsh #SeaPottery fragment… but it has a striped body so maybe a fancy bee? #Beachcombing
Finger and thumb holding a roughly heart shaped sea worn pottery shard, white, with a print of a blue winged insect with long curled antennae. Background is out of focus bit apparently a dark pebbly beach and grey blue water
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#WednesdayWords
#Seabrick presented without comment #beachcombing
A sea worn orange brick with the single letter F carved in its frog. It rests on scrubby grass and jagged grey rocks
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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#SundaySunlight - a small #seaglass pile from Mallorca, in the Spanish sunshine (which i’m already missing having got back from a 48 hr whirlwind worktrip) #beachcombing
About 50-60 pieces of seaglass in various sizes and colours, mostly greens and aquas, resting on a white surface. Sunlight beams in through a net curtain casting a wavey light almost like being under water
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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#ThursdayTrace I like to think this bit of #Seapottery is a Bartmann jug. It probably isn’t, but a beachcomber can dream…. #beachcombing
A roughly trapezoid shaped piece of earthenware pottery resting on a beige and seafoam tartan fabric. The glaze is dark been and a trace of an etched pattern is visible
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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#MarbleMonday - always one of the most exciting #Beachcombing finds #seaglass
A seaworn and frosted aqua glass marble lying among mixed stones and pebbles
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#FridayFossil - i really appreciate fossils that are immediately identifiable even by non experts like me 😅 #Beachcombing
Photo of part if a large dark brown tock resting on sand. There are many pale fossil fragment inclusions, including one that is clearly a spiral shell.
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#TuesdayTorso - who do we think this belonged to? Barnacle encrusted plastic saint(?) found in Madeira #Beachcombing #SeaPlastic
A broken plastic figure- it looks like a kneeling figure in flowing robes, lying on grey rocks Hands holding the figurine, it is a kneeling figure with arms outstretched. Both hands and the neck/head are missing
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Snails! Dirty beachcombing fingernail for scale 😅
Six periwinkles clustered in a hole in a rock- they are all different colours, whites, blues, greens, browns, oranges and yellows Periwinkle ohoto with a finger fir scale, the periwinkles are barely 2-3mm across
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#SaturdayShards - a collection of #SeaPottery in a frame from a charity/thrift shop #Beachcombing
Flatlay, a decorative green frame with copper filigree inlay. In the frame are 11 very different seaworn sea pottery shards, some small, some larger, all different patterns- plain yellow, green florals, stripes etc
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#SundaySafety - a seaworn piece of crackled safety glass #Beachcombing #Seaglass
A seaworn piece of crackle surfaced safety glass, trapezoid shaped, blue-white with two lines of metal reinforcement that are rusting slightly. It rests on dark brown, beige and pink quartz pebbles
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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#ThursdayTrumpet - toot toot! (Yes it’s actually an Auger but i always think trumpet first) #Beachcombing #SeaShells
A long pointed seashell in shades of apricot and peach, lying in wet grey rocks surrounded by cockle shells in similar shades.
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#MondayMetal - i think beach metal, like seabricks, are underrated finds. I like them encrusted and unidentifiable and that they cannot be preserved in the form you found them because they are constantly chemically evolving. #Beachcombing
A disk of metal with a heavy orange coating of rust and small points at the 12 and 6 o clock areas. It rests on grey rocks The same metal circle flipped over to show interlacing disks, also encrusted, on the underside
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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#FridayFinds - miles (well, half a mile) of gorgeous white sand on the Outer Hebrides, and this one little bit of purple spongeware #Seapottery #Beachcombing
A roughly triangular piece of sea worn pottery, white with a spinged purple pattern- lying on very fine very pale sand Finger and thumb holdong up the sea pottery from the last ohoto. Beyond stretches a pale sandy beach and deep blue-green sea with mountains in the background
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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#TuesdayTreat blue #Seaglass - and it’s textured!
An irregular piece of well frosted primary blue seaglass with smooth fat ridges. It rests in fine gravel in shades of brown, beige and grey The blue seaglass in context - it is low foreground and a shingle breach stretches to a grey blue sea
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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#SaturdayStone i’ve given up apologising for missing a day. Let’s just say it was a strange, busy week and leave it at that. Back on target now #Beachcombing #Seaglass
A grey pebble resting on other rocks. It has two white inclusions that form a circle within a circle like a target.
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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#SundayStack - mostly buoy bits and some fishing waste. (And a note that while saying “what’s in the bag? Oh just some buoy bits” sounds fine in US-English it makes you sound like a serial killer with the Brit-English pronunciation…) . I think the lego brick is a fake #Beachcombing #Take3ForTheSea
A stack of thick, seaworn and faded plastic pieces, with a row of vintage bottles behind. The pieces are mostly curved buoy bits in shades of yellow to red, topped with a long green plastic object and a knobbly orange bit containing a purple lego brick.
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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#ThursdayThings I’ve only recently got into the good habit of laying out and labelling all the finds from each beach - on preview I couldn’t see the text and guessed this was Wales, biut I was wrong! (And the penny is actually a euro) #Beachcombing #Seaglass
Rectangular flat lay on a white background of beachcombing finds, mostly green, white and brown seaglass. There is also a grey hagstone, copper coin and white tile fragment. Text above reads Mallorca April 2024
October 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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#MondayMirror - a textured bit of seapottery on a very reflective seaglass bottle bottom #beachcombing
A roughly rectangular shard of white pottery with a delicate blue flower & leaf, slightly raised pattern. It rests on a dark green glass bottle bottom which is flat on one edge and curved on the other
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I made a thing! All seaglass and a seaglass bottle bottom… #Beachcombing
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#FridayFan - just a gorgeous autumnal sunset scallop #Beachcombing
A very large scallop shell, in shades of ombre orange and brown, on dark wet sand
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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#TuesdayTideline - one of the classic bits of #BeachGroceries produce, hardy sea tossed broccoli! #beachcombing
A stem of green broccoli lying among dark seaweed on a sandy beach -blue sky and distant hills and mountains beyond
September 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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#SaturdayStoneface 👀 #Beachcombing
Hand holding an oval granite pebbles with two round dark natural marks looking like a pair of eyes. Background is a very pebbly beach
September 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#WednesdayWonder - just for the colour 🩵 #Seaglass #Beachcombing
Roughly triangulr piece of seaglass, possibly part of a narrow bottle bottom, in a vibrant teal blue-green. It is embedded into wet dark sand and surrounded by pebbles in many different shades
September 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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#SundayShells - throwback to #Beachcombing in Tasmania 2 years ago
Three grey/brown shells in a line on a grey and white rock, the colours all part if a similar tonal palette. Two of the shells are snail-like clockwise whorls, the third is an abalone or similar turned upside down to show glimmers if grey-blue iridescence
September 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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#MondayMetal obligatory “foot for scale”. An axel? Car or truck or boat part? #Beachcombing
A large and rusted metal object aming lrge beach rocks and stones. a circular rim approximately 30-40com across, judging by the brown walking boot next to it, with a c.20cm tall thick central tube or spoke.
September 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM