Lisa Woollett

Tis but a scratch. Headless, legless knights found on beaches (one lead, the other plastic)

Two nursehound shark eggcases found on Cornish beaches

Beach trees on the Isle of Wight. Just offshore is the 8000-year-old Mesolithic site known as Bouldnor Cliff. Incredibly, it was discovered in 1999 when a diver spotted worked flints ejected from a lobster’s burrow.

Now under 11m of water, it's possibly the oldest boat-building site in the world.

Sunlight on a submerged prehistoric forest for the first time in decades. These photos show the sand grains returning after storms revealed the trees. Probably around 4000 years old, the ‘sub-fossilised’ trunks were reburied within weeks. 17th century reports describe trees seen 'a league' offshore.

Thank you very much. Probably not - I rarely stick anything down

For decades now, I’ve picked up the odd shore find encrusted with barnacles or keelworm tubes.

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Thanks Cathryn, very much appreciated!

Belated GIVEAWAY (now I’ve found them... after the courier delivered surreptitiously to the next door farmer’s shed). Out now in paperback.

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Mermaid’s purse. Before drying to black, this one became strangely and beautifully sculptural.

The slit at the bottom is where the nursehound shark (or bull huss) ‘pup’ emerged.

Wild and windy again in Cornwall today. This is a new one I’ve been printing this week, taken on the north coast after a storm passed through overnight. The north wind was still gale force, so I was absolutely freezing when I took it (despite so many layers I could barely keep my arms raised).

Thanks Shelley

Turns out my beachcombed fork belonged to Private A.G. Taylor of the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. In 1940, his battalion was the last to be evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches. As rearguard, it’s likely they thought they were being sacrificed to allow others to get away (more insta @lisawoollett)

Plastic WWII army man found on a Cornish beach. While he now appears to be pleading, he once operated a field radio. They were originally manufactured 1950s through to early 1970s, with most from the 1960s

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A few beachcombed finds including a pink cuttlebone, table football man, an Action Man 'hard hand' (1966-1973), moon snail, false teeth and the throat teeth of a ballan wrasse, clay leg, crab claws, Playmobile child’s head, variegated scallop and - pleasingly - a headless chicken

Thanks Tony... a tentative toe in the water

Pink sea fan skeleton found in Cornwall this week, plus one from a while back. Originally thought to be plants, they're actually animals: a type of ‘horny coral’ known also – rather magnificently – as ‘warty gorgonians’ (see second pic for the warts).

Thanks Paula - very much appreciated!

Thanks Paula, all feels very strange and new

Typeset pages for Lost to the Sea, along with a few sea things picked up along the way – in places that once were land. It’s due out in May, and this is the first time it really feels like a book. Going on last time, it’s also when it becomes something of an emotional rollercoaster.