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Shore finds, 17th-21st century

Ring thimble, c.1450-1600, found on the Thames foreshore

Plastic plants found on Cornish beaches

Flotsam army man

Doll parts: ceramic & plastic,19th-21st century

Army man: radio operator, c. 1970s

Shore finds, 19th-21st century

Toothbrushes: bone & vintage plastic

Buttons & beads, 17th-21st century

Artificial plants found on Cornish beaches

Teaspoons, 19th-20th century

Smoking related finds, 17th-21st century

Obscure plastic animals found on Cornish beaches

Plastic dinosaur on a plastic landscape

Beach-found metal, mainly 1900s

Washed up music box dancer

Bottlenecks and Codd marbles, 19th-20th century

Crotal bell, 17-18th century

Two winters of toy car wheels

Plastic wise man

Gradual breakdown of the flotsam army

Mudlarking finds, Roman & medieval to recent

Combs: bone & plastic, 17th-21st century

Army man, nurdles & microplastics

Plastic found on Cornish beaches

Table football man

Pink sea fans tangled with synthetic debris

Action Man 'hard hand', 1966-73

Toothbrushes: bone, vintage plastic and modern combination plastics

Coral and a cowrie found on the Thames

Party popper with the bite-marks of fish

Kitchen cupboard

Shoe with goose barnacles

Army man head 1

Light bulb fittings and a toggle light switch

Army man head 2

Kelp with a golf ball as its anchor rock

Light bulb found on the Thames estuary

Pink sea fan skeleton tangled with debris

Plastic cherry

Hand-forged nails from the Thames, c. 16-18th century

Teddy's eye in a plastic-filled rockpool

Headless horseman

Cabinet of finds from making 'Sea & Shore Cornwall'

Horseman with half a horse

Flotsam toothbrush with goose barnacles

Toothpaste tubes, lead to aluminium, 19th-20th century

Plastic bottle with goose barnacles

Plastic pegs found on Cornish beaches

Beachcombed plastic, 1950s/60s to recent

Vintage toothbrushes, hair curler pins & combs

Kellogg's 'Butch', 1973

Plastic doll arms

Casette tape

Pins found on the Thames, many handmade 15th-18th century

Plastic army men

Corroded teaspoon

Life-size plastic fly

Beachcombed fishing lures

Plastic snake

Bed bug from the 1980s game 'Bed Bugs'

Plastic army man

Plastic found on Cornish beaches

Plastic found on Cornish beaches

Lego dragon lost at sea in 1997

Shore-finds collected while writing Rag and Bone

Broken Smartie lids found on beaches, 14-40+ years old

HP printer ink cartridge

Plastic found on Cornish beaches

Plastic Pop-it beads, 1950s onwards

Plastic combs

Bone & plastic combs, toothbrushes & buttons

Plastic soy sauce fish

Plastic found on Cornish beaches

Washed up angel

Headless, legless knight (plastic)

Headless 'styling head'

Headless, legless knight (lead)

Silver sugar bowl lid, c.1900s

Plastic found on Cornish beaches

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