What's the oddest thing you have found while beachcombing?

[Seafog]

Hello fellow beach combers!
I have been combing for 8 years now, and have found a lot of weird things over the years, from a deceased sea turtle (huge! And so smelly) to binoculars, money, half a sail boat and an engine block.

Anyone else trawl the shores for goodies? Find anything cool?

@Livelongandprosper

Tell me you took that home!!! I would have!!!

I used to live by the sea. When I go home to visit my parents my DC love looking for sea glass.

A big container ship once washed up on the beach. Can't really claim I found that though....think a few others just might have noticed it before I got there

Brigitsbigknickers, I love west Runton! I went there as a child and just started going again, that looks like a tooth you’ve found there? I found fossilised squid there in half term.
Most interesting finds have been seal bones, a whole beach of live seal and pups (in Horsey)
Loads of hag stones and a naked old man with a rucksack in winterton

Fossilized horse tooth (we think)

Sperm whale jaw bones.

One of the sea glass marbles ( from drink bottles I believe) I've found.

The sea glass I found this morning

That red marble is incredible @TowandaForever

I have not gone beachcombing for years.

On the day of the funeral of Princess Diana, I had no wish to watch the funeral and so went beachcombing at a beach nearby to my home. Saw a bracelet but did not pick it up (or check whether it said 'Fred and Gladys').

Lots of sea glass. Lots of broken china with patterns on it. Part of a clay doll - always wanted to find a clay doll head though. Clay pipe bits.

My mum is from the Isles of Scilly - my absolute favourite beachcoming spot, Town Beach in particular is ace for it. Used to be a big hotel there and I think they just threw all the broken crockery out into the sea where it broke up and came back as interesting bits for me!

Lots of shipwrecks in that area too - hence the clay pipes and clay dolls from some long ago wreck.

Beachcombing on Town Beach at low tide is my happy place. Must go back soon.

A message in a glass bottle. I wrote to the address and the person wrote back.

From Seaham although I find other beaches far better

The name plate off a burial at sea casket

Purple how old was it? Thats a really interesting find. Would you be able to find out which family it came from and return it to them, or is it too old?

What a great thread! Makes me want to go to the beach right now.

@GreenPlum that looks very similar to the cow's tooth I found on Church beach at Lyme Regis. Not fossilized; there was a Victorian (and maybe older) rubbish dump on the cliffs above, that eventually crumbled down onto the beach.

An ammonite. I was delighted!

@Cherrysoup you are so lucky!

Oooh just remembered dd found a devils toenail-a fossilised oyster shell.