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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 7h

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 8h

He’s magnificent. Where did you find him?

Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15h

We found a Playmobil cat, to go with the mouse...

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 15h

Tis true, the camel has seen better days...

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16h

The day we found a Playmobil zookeeper

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16h

Tiny animals saved from the waves, along with a Playmobil zookeeper, also found on a beach. #beachcombing

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16h

the penultimate word in this post is the name of a village in cornwall and it is not pronounced how you think it is

Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16h

While picking up plastic from the beach earlier this year, we spotted this tiny Playmobil mouse among all the nurdles, biobeads and microplastics. Curiously it was the second Playmobil mouse we had discovered, though neither was found at Mousehole, disappointingly.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 16h

This image, this poor plastic
horse all out of place, keeps reminding me of the end of Kurosawa’s Kagemusha, when the battlefield is full of men screaming and the bewildered horses nearly upside down, their legs kicking at smoke.

Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 17h

Playmobil horse lost to the sea

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16h

While picking up plastic from the beach earlier this year, we spotted this tiny Playmobil mouse among all the nurdles, biobeads and microplastics. Curiously it was the second Playmobil mouse we had discovered, though neither was found at Mousehole, disappointingly.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 17h

Playmobil horse lost to the sea

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 18h

Blimey!

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 18h

Man down.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally we find the roof racks that some of these wheels were once attached to. It's thought the roof racks are from toy safari trucks.

Toy roof rack being held over plastic covered strandline

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the many toy wheels from a cargo spill we have picked up.

Rows of plastic toy wheels with yellow centres

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 1d

On the strandline tonight, among a sea of plastic, another toy wheel from a cargo spill. Over the years, beachcombers have picked up hundreds of these.

Plastic toy wheel lying among plastic fragments on the strandline.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 2d

It’s World Octopus Day. There were 4,200 Lego octopuses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. We found our first Lego octopus soon afterwards but didn’t discover another for 18 years. #WorldOctopusDay #oceanplastic

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 8d

Indeed they do!

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 8d

Incredible!

Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 9d

While raking through some gravel in the lane beside our house as we searched for a buried water meter we found this small dinosaur head

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 10d

Some of our ‘vintage’ finds have already gone on display in museums!

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 10d

Here's an even older plastic bag that we found during a recent beach clean. According to the very helpful folk at the M&S Archive, this particular bag was in use in their food halls c.1973 – 1976. It even had the remains of a 50 year old tin inside, hence the discolouration.

Old discoloured M&S St Michael plastic carrier bag lying on sand

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 11d

Well remembered!

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 11d

Not sure how old this plastic bag is but Gateway supermarkets have been around since the 1960s. In 1990 they began to be rebranded as Somerfield. Exposed by shifting sands and found during one of our recent beach cleans. #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene

Brightly coloured Gateway plastic bag on black background

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 13d

Beauty and the Beast: a beachcombed Belle among a sea of plastic, all washed up together on 4th January 2022.
#Anthropocene #plasticbeach #Cornwall

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