Tag Archives: piddocks

Snippet 15: The continuing mystery of the piddocks

Posted on October 17, 2021 by solwayshorewalker

The tide is ebbing and, along the inner edge of a shallow channel on the shore, it has deposited a line of offerings, neatly sorted: predominantly mussel shells, some black, some striped, all shining wetly in the October sun; a … Continue reading →

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Snippet 14: Long-lost piddocks and the peat

Posted on May 16, 2021 by solwayshorewalker

The shore at Beckfoot, on a sunny, windy day in May: the Solway is a churned, pale brown, and a wavering white line far off in the Firth marks where the incoming tide is beating against a sandbank. Towards the … Continue reading →

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‘Cold cases’: land-scape puzzles on the Solway shore

Posted on December 3, 2020 by solwayshorewalker

“Mr Cash went to Beckfoot … the submerged forest was not visible and I regret to say the residents he inquired from had not even heard of it”. So wrote Brian Blake in his 1955 book The Solway Firth, which … Continue reading →

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Loom-stones or fishing-weights? (And the role of piddocks)

Posted on February 23, 2015 by solwayshorewalker

In my post on March 21st 2014 I wrote about an object I had found on the shore near Beckfoot, which one of my shore-walkers told me was a warp-weight or loom-stone; I subsequently saw similar objects used to keep … Continue reading →

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