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Part of a brass door handle or cabinet knob I'm guessing. Battered by rolling stones.
County Clare, Ireland.

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🔊 Sound on
Half a minute of the shoreline breathing gently.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Seapottery - a piece of a domestic life long since lived. The cracks look like an aerial view of a cityscape.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A sea pottery piece - part of a floral design??
County Clare, Ireland.

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A sea pottery piece. Sharp edges worn smooth by sands.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A piece of sea pottery - likely washed out onto the shoreline by a nearby river.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A chunk of seapottery - with cracks that look like the road map of a vast city that never existed.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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An earthenware shard, like a ships sail against a blue backdrop.
County Clare, Ireland.

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I find golf balls often enough along the shoreline but this one is the most worn one yet!
County Clare, Ireland.

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A small sea pottery piece.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Coils of Birch bark - likely originating from North America and has ridden a combination of winds and currents to cross the Atlantic.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A piece off pottery washed out of a midden in an eroded cliff face. Middens were old dumps for household waste often containing shells, bones and broken pieces of kitchenware. In Ireland they can date from a hundred to over 7,000 years old.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Dimpled Seaglass piece, picked up on the St Stevens day beach walk.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Sea pottery piece
County Down, Ireland.

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Not sure what the design on this piece of seapottery was supposed to be, but I think it has an insect-like look to it.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Looked like the storm gods had sent me an early Christmas gift.
Not a drop left unfortunately 😪, unless @orchardthievescider do refills 🤣
County Clare, Ireland

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A Shore pumpkin 🎃 🤣🤣
A first for me.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A green seaglass nugget.
County Clare, Ireland.

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This might be a piece from an old Lucozade bottle 🤔
County Clare, Ireland.

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A writhing mass of Kelp fronds in a lowtide rockpool.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Sea pottery piece from a river mouth.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A pretty green pocket pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.

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@jlcopner captured this lovely pic of Fiadh keeping watch while I'm engaged in some suspect activity on the shoreline 🤣🤣
County Clare, Ireland.

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"Flirtatious Flotsam"
I've never found anything washed up on the shore that looked so happy to see me 🤣🤣
County Clare, Ireland.

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A small piece of light blue seaglass.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A piece of a patterned seapottery that brings blue fish scales to mind. 🐟
County Clare, Ireland.

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A green seaglass nugget.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Thongweed (Himanthalia elongata) buttons. Long shoelace or spaghetti like strands grow from the centre of these buttons as they mature.
County Clare, Ireland.

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"Lucky break"
A Sea pottery fragment from Owey Island.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A pretty green pebble flecked with colours.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Cobalt blue seaglass piece.
County Kerry, Ireland.

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Beautifully worn seaglass gems and a tiny piece of copper.
County Kerry, Ireland.

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Another multi-holed Hagstone - this one reminds me of the Moai from Rapa Nui (The large statues from Easter Island) but pocket sized.
It is actually a piece of shale that's been drilled through by Piddocks (marine bivalves).
County Clare, Ireland.

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This cow/horse tooth has been worn down and polished over years by the actions of sand and stones along the shoreline. I tend to find them near river mouths or close by.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Beadlet Anemones (Actinia equina) providing crimson starbusts in a rockpool coated in light pink Coralline algae (Lithophyllum incrustans).
County Clare, Ireland.

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Not a happy pebble!!
County Clare, Ireland.

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A piece of Blue seaglass (still a bit sharp edged) discovered during a dawn walk. County Clare, Ireland.

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I think this might be the skull of a Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus),but this is a guess based on its similarities to pics I've seen - if anyone has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them!
County Clare, Ireland.

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Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus) carapace with a Green Sea Urchin (Psammechinus miliaris) test inside. County Clare, Ireland.

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Common Limpets (Patella vulgata) huddled together, waiting for the incoming tide. County Clare, Ireland.

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Glorious green pebbles. Likely originating in County Galway to the North of here and transported South by glacial activity during the last Iceage over 15,000 years ago. County Clare, Ireland.

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A Painted Topshell (Calliostoma zizyphinum) on a small stack of concretions, County Clare, Ireland.

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A Grey Triggerfish (Balistes carolinens) Regular summer visitors to irish coastal waters they sometimes get caught out by Autumn storms and dropping sea temperatures. Here you can see their distinctive teeth and dorsal spines (trigger). County Clare, Ireland.

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A Spiny Starfish (Marthasterias glacialis), County Clare, Ireland.

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A wee bit of baby-blue seaglass. County Clare, Ireland.

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The ghostly impression of a fossilized Goniatite showing in this shoreworn shale pebble. Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

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Shades of Seaglass green.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Another flowery sea pottery fragment 😍. County Clare, Ireland.

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A 320 million year old fossilized imprint of a Goniatite shell punctuates this pebble. County Clare, Ireland.

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