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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sea horse. Made with finds from my 60 year collection of #flotsam #jetsam #beachcombing #IsleofMan #allwashedup

Horse on a stand. Made with wood, brass, copper wire, all found on beaches.

Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#SundaySimilar #Seapottery found on the same beach - I don’t think it’s the same print, just a coincidence of colour #Beachcombing

An irregular piece of seaworn white pottery with a deep teal green transfer print of foliage. It rests on dark wet sand

A similarly shaped and coloured piece with a different leaf pattern, it lies among similarly dark wet sand and soft edged pebbles

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#WednesdayWords - what do you make of these fragments of words (spoiler: I think it is “non-alcoholic and no artificial colours or flavours”) #Beachcombing #Seaglass

A roughly rectangular piece of very seaworn clear white glass with kettering reading on-alco / tificial / orla” it rests in dark pebbles

Fingers and thumb holding the same shard up to the light, a calm grey blue sea beyind

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve been awol here for the past week or so as on holiday. Normal posting will restart tomorrow, but in the meantime here’s a friend I found in mallorca #Beachcombing #AsFound

A small orange plastic plesiosaur on a sandy beachc apparently looking wistfully out to sea

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#FridayFlatlay an unplanned trip to Ayr (we were supposed to go to Arran but a huge storm cancelled all the ferries). So many vulcanites! Many of these sand toys became an Xmas wreath… #Beachcombing #Take3ForTheSea

A flatlay of beachcombed objects on a white background. This inclides 8 sand toysin crab, fish and sea star shapes either red or yellow, rope, vulcanites, a well frosted bottle, two toy guns, a door hook and miscellaneous other finds mostly toys and a few bits of seaglass . The text reads “Ayr jan 2925l

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#TuesdayTideline this very old oyster(?) has been food and home for worms and boring mollusks #Beachcombing

Hamd holdong a large whote scalloped shell with deep ridges and an indented top. The background is a pebbly beach

The same shell flipped over to show pockmarks, holes, faint worm casts and other aging

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#WednesdayWhereIsIt - i wanted to look out this lure for a craft project the other day and couldn’t find it… now where have i stashed it 🤔 #beachcombing

A silver and yellow striped fish shaped fishing lure lying among dried brown seaweed and grey pebbles

Hand holding the fishing lure in front of a scenery shot of a curved pebble beach to the right ending in low green hills, a blue grey sea to the left

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#ThursdayTrick - it looks like sea pottery…but it’s a shell fragment. They fool me all the time #Beachcombing

A roughly rectangular piece of shell, orange with black lines, that looks a lot like pottery, lying in grey pebbles

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What is this weeny little blob? Does anyone know? A mollusc larva perhaps? I’d love your insights! #marineplankton 🦑

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#MondayMurie - one of the things I like about seabricks is they often have useful labels and makers marks to help you research them (research is my day job so I usually avoid doing too much for sea finds otherwise it turns into work😅) #Beachcombing

A sea worn brick with the text P M Murie rests on sand

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#WednesdayWhites - I don’t usually take shells from the beach, but I do like to organise them into little piles #Beachcombing

Five white or cream shells on a plain piece if sea pottery in beige sand. Tw shelks are deeply textured with ridges or worm casts, two are clam shaped and smooth, one is the exposed interior of a whorled shell

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SundaySunset - as found 😅 one of the more unusual entries in my #BeachGroceries collection #Beachcombing

Foreground a single green grape rests in a grey-brown rock. Beyond, out of focus, a rocky beach leads to a strip of grey-blue sea, low clouds and a sunburst sunset

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

POV: You took a GoPro to the Cambrian #SciArt #artbyjulio

An over/under split image showing an Anomalocaris swimming in shallow water. The underwater environment is a patchwork of pale sand and a green carpet of algae or microbial mats, with a few scattered rocks, illuminated by water caustics. Two small Wiwaxia crawl around leaving trails behind them. Above water, a distant barren landscape is seen with a clear, bright sky. The image resembles GoPro photography aesthetics.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I may have posted it before but in case you haven’t seen her here is my capybara pebble. She had fallen out of an old flint wall in Linton Cambridgeshire & was lying on the pavement 🤎

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#SaturdaySports one of my most common beach litter finds, although not usually this colour. Unfortunately a lot of our coastline is given over to golfers & their plastic balls and tees end up on the shoreline #BeachPlastic #Beachcombing

A seaworn orange golfball lying among gritty sand and grey pebbles

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

UPDATE: finds in the US too but now suggestion is it’s jewellery (rings?) not buttons? Vintage example found but it is milkglass (seaglass versions are clear) & lettering is not offset, so similar but not the same. The mystery deepens! www.instagram.com/p/DaoGT6yzJy...

Screenshot pf a collaged instagram post showing the original image of seaglass cabochons with letters and a new intervention from ladylouislouis showing three milk glass versions in red, orange blue and an advert for a child’s ladybird ring with a similar red milkglass ladybird shaped jewel

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Calling all #Seaglass and #vintage fans. We’re trying to identify these lozenge shaped glass #buttons with offset lettering - found in Sydney, Australia and various parts of UK esp Scotland. Anyone recognise them? www.instagram.com/p/DaWIzjYT8-...

Screenshot of an instagram post showing several curved rectangular glass buttons lome objects with letters embossed - red has an R, blue an M, yellow a C or G, green a D. Text credits ladylouislouis “all the way from England has sent me these pics of her find. Further text reads “found in Australia and the UK”

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Hey there beachcombers and mudlarks and landlocked crows: bid on some sparkly treasures for DEMOCRACY at the @romancingthevote.com auction! And I just realized I forgot to include a special whistle, so the winner will get to pick what I put in! #beachcombing #seaglassing #mudlark

a collection of heart shaped whistles with capitalized text like conversation hearts on a wooden table. They are in Knicks blue & orange, white with pastel letters, and a sparkly rainbow shimmer. they read CHINGA LA MIGRA, NOU PWOTEJE NOU, HOTTIES MELT ICE, ICE OUT, FCK ICE, WE PROTECT US, AND EL PUEBLO UNIDO

Detail of an assemblage of seaglass and shore-found glass and pottery items, including paste gem, marbles, a doll head and stoppers.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#TuesdayTrek found on the beach in Ullapool (technically not found by me but my friend was kind enough to leave it in place for me to pick up) #SeaPottery #Beachcombing

A roughly rectangular piece of sea-worn pottery, white with a blue band that contains a dark blue outline picture of someone on a camel. It lies among grey and beige pebbles

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#SaturdaySuggestion I am sure someone identified this shard for me, but apparently I’ve forgotten. Is it Grower, maybe a terrarium or something to put over and protect plants? Or it’s a brand? It was a large mouthed jar either way. #SeaGlass #Beachcombing

Finger and thumb holding a shard of
seaworn glass- it is a fragment of large jar, a fat lip, a curve and the letters G R O W E R it is a very pale aqua. Beyond a sunny street scene.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#WednesdayWorm *and* #WednesdayWhelk - a fully encrusted whelk shell. I love it when they shear like this and you can see the internal architecture. Part of my v small shell collection - generally I leave them on the beach (the limpets were an accident, scooped up in a beach towel! ) #Beachcombing

Against a pale fabric with beige and grey stripes, a large grey oyster and two pale yellow limpets prop up a whelk shell that has been bisected to show the inner spiral. It is encrusted with worm casings.

The same scene with the whelk shell turned around to show the encrustation on the outside.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#MondayMarble a real treat. A clay marble, just retaining the trace of its painted pattern #Beachcombing #BeachMarbles

A pitted clay marble resting on a green patinaed piece of metal. A cross or crown shaped decoration is just visible

The same marble rolled over to show more of the crown like pattern

The marble resting among sea brick fragments and rough rocks

Finger and thumb holding the marble, it is large, perhaps 3cm across

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#TuesdayTideline gotta love a pelicans foot shell (though I think it looks more like a wing than a foot) #Seashells #Beachcombing

A peachy toned spiral shell on dark sand. It is conical but the entrance to the shell/outer lip is flared out like a bird foot or bat wing

Finger and thumb holding up the shell, a blurred sunny seascape beyond

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

May you find someone who unabashedly looks at you like this when you enter a room.

A Mourning Dove craning its neck sharply upward and backward, looking behind itself against a gray background.

A Mourning Dove in a similar neck-craned pose, head tilted back at a steep angle, viewed from slightly closer.

A Mourning Dove facing the camera in a more neutral posture, its head turned slightly to one side.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#SundaySpecial always a favourite find - a well frosted #Seaglass bottle stopper #Beachcombing

A white glass bottle stopper - completely frosted both wear in the sea, lying among mixed pebbles and dry grasses

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#ThursdayThrong - I don’t usually take natural objects away from the beach, but I do like to leave them in little piles… #Beachcombing #Seashells

A dozen different shells laid out in a grey rock - pebble beach, rocks and a grey line of sea and sky beyond. The shells are mostly bivalve halves in shades of orange yellow brown and grey, one is a bright orange red pointed spiral shell (an auger shell)

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Spending the bank holiday sorting; somehow I never have (large) enough storage for any of it… #Beachcombing #Seaglass

A wooden floor covered with plastic drawers and pots, all containing beachcombing finds like seaglass, beach plastics, sea pottery etc.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#FridayForgot I forgot to post on Friday! But today the sun is out and so I’m sorting glass and had this surprise; I did not see the pattern when I picked this up on Jura, I just grabbed it for the colour #Seaglass #Beachcombing

Finger and thumb holding a roughly rectangular oiece os green-blue seaglass with a raised decistion of a fish. It is visible as the sun shines through it, a bright garden blurry in the background

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#TuesdayTangerine - ok more of a lemon buoy. We’re growing our collection of #MacroFinds #Beachcombing

A bright yellow plastic buoy with a deep orange ripe, resting on pebbles.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#WednesdayWonder - so-called “pirate glass” old #Seaglass so thick that it appears black until you shine a bright light through it #Beachcombing

Two rectangular chunks of sea won glass stacked in top of each other. The upper one is a very dark green, the lower pure black

A torch behind the two dark pieces of seaglass has been turned on, shining through them and revealing the too a s bright green and the bottom as a light amber brown.

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

#SundaySpaceship - ok it’s crab or lobster traps (?) but it looks to me like a crashed space station. #Beachcombing #PlasticPollution

A large cluster of a dozen or more plastic hollow rectangles, one side cut out of each and regular holes on the other sides, plus a large amount of rope. They rest on grey pebbles with a looming overcast sky above.
A single spider crab skeleton is visible for scale, showing the pile is several metres actoss

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#ThursdayTeddy well, his eye ball anyway! Glass toy animal eye, aberaeron #Beachcombing

Finger and thumb holding up a seaworn glass toy animal eye; a sun setting over the grey sea beyind

“As found” photo of the glass eye on a grey rock

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

#FridayFlatlay - I don’t normally take natural objects but I couldn’t resist these claws! #Beachcombing #SeaGlass #Flatlay

A flat lay of beach finds in rectangle: two large orange lobster claws, many bottle necks, seaglass in shades of white, green and blue, and patterned pottery shards. Text reads “ullapool June 2024”

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Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#TuesdayThorns i think that’s a tiny bramble branch with thorns at the bottom there? #Beachcombing #SeaPottery

Finger and thumb holding a roughly rectangular piece of seaworn pottery. A dark blue print on white seems to show parts of leaves and a single strand of thorn bearing vine

The same pottery piece “as found” nestled among grey and beige rocks and pebbles

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Where are my #CrabTime & #Crustmas fans at - look at this little guy 😂 Land #Crab Effigy Vessel Colima culture, E. Mexico, Proto-Classical, 100 BCE - 250 CE Redware ceramic w/ brick red slip, black oxides H17 x W18 x D20.5 cm www.giquelloetassocies.fr/en/lot/10121... #MesoAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

official auction photo of the crab effigy vessel, redware ceramic, globular body standing on 8 legs with two claws and incised face details, single spout on top

closeup of the adorably serious face and raised claws resembling the “what do you want” Italian hand gesture - expecting lots of “Italian crab” jokes as a result LOL

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