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Old 02-02-2018, 06:43 PM
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The anchor is about 400m south of your picture, well up the beach, directly down from the covered culvert photographed and discussed in the WW2 thread. That certainly looks like an anchor chain, perhaps its "linked" to our anchor ... sorry

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Old 02-02-2018, 08:05 PM
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I could be way off the mark here, but I found records of a vessel which sank in 1885 (sail and steam powered) after it ran aground hitting rocks at 'Bordicar point' (possibly wrong spelling). It was the SS Ferrifer.

I don't know if it could have been towed North and broken up or if it just sank.

Could be a coincidence, but it was carrying 140 tons of pig iron ingots at the time!

Here is the link to the wreck site if anyone fancies a look. Unfortunately you have to pay for most of the information it links to, but the wreck report is free

https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?238484

Could be. But looking in the newspaper archive I get the thousand yard stare there are that many ships lost on our patch. Years ago when I did that lost ships page the local newspaper archive was not online. I thought back then well, I bet I've got most of them....Wrong...I'd just scratched the surface!


I think the prevailing current is north to south if that's any help.
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Old 02-02-2018, 08:08 PM
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The anchor is about 400m south of your picture, well up the beach, directly down from the covered culvert photographed and discussed in the WW2 thread. That certainly looks like an anchor chain, perhaps its "linked" to our anchor ... sorry
I'd like to see it before nature takes it away again. I'll have a toddle down over the weekend.
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Old 02-02-2018, 08:11 PM
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Is there a lump broken out of the ring of the anchor? or just a trick of the camera?
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Old 02-02-2018, 09:41 PM
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There was a lump broken out of the ring last weekend.
As for the current, generally it flows north to south on the flood tide and south to north when the tide goes out, twice daily. The beach is susceptible to shifting sands when due to being in the lee of the island, a good nor-easterly or south easterly sea hits the beach at an acute angle to move the sand south or north along it. Hope that makes sense!
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Lovely fossil Coquet. Is that snow on it?
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Old 03-02-2018, 02:23 PM
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I'd like to see it before nature takes it away again. I'll have a toddle down over the weekend.
It is back under the sand as of saturday morning 03/02/18 nothing to see
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Old 03-02-2018, 07:13 PM
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Lovely fossil Coquet. Is that snow on it?

It's a white mineral filling the cavities/pore spaces of the fossil, almost certainly calcite.
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Old 03-02-2018, 07:16 PM
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It is back under the sand as of saturday morning 03/02/18 nothing to see

Well I didn't expect it to be gone that fast. Ah well.
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