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[Closed] What is this I found on the beach?

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I just idly dug out a metal thing with my boot at low tide, and noticed it has vaguely fin shaped things at one end.
Should I run for my life, or take it home? 🙂

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Posted : 14/12/2016 2:30 pm
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Mjölnir.


 
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Baby robin?

Or Posidens trident.

Either or.


 
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Either kick it or throw rocks at it.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:32 pm
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It's a thingamybob from a nuclear sub.


 
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Bit of old fashioned railing?

Any piers collapsed nearby?


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:32 pm
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Its an oojamaflip


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:33 pm
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No piers or structures anywhere near.
Unexploded ww2 bombs are regularly found here however.


 
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The Sword of Damocles


 
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Mjölnir.

You can go off people....

Just bought a CDF 10 🙂


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:37 pm
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Thanks for finding my Prince Albert, you can keep it


 
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Looks a little like...

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The Sword of Damocles

Can't be, that dangles above your head


 
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Is it the 50lbs of compacted, undigested red meat from John Waynes colon?


 
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Prop shaft. From an antedliviuan alien craft circa the Time Of Atlantis.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:57 pm
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Looks like a driveshaft. Driveshaft from Boudeccia's chariot probly.


 
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Baby torpedo - sadly not all of them make it to adulthood.


 
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Is it the 50lbs of compacted, undigested red meat from [s]John Waynes[/s] bearnecessities's colon?


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:04 pm
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Part of extra long crankset for giants.


 
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On one top tube


 
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One of the old fuel assemblies from Windscale, probably. They were finned.

Rachel


 
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It's the key to my heart.
*Jiggles alluringly*


 
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Can't be, that dangles above your head

Its dangling over the head of a rather concerned crab.


 
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was the spirit of Ronnie Barker in the vicinity? as that looks like one of them there common garden four-candles


 
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Tractor linkage.


 
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Laughing shaft or Giggling pin.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 4:56 pm
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A rusty one of these?

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 5:11 pm
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Tillydog

And that is?


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 5:13 pm
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A clean one of those up there, obviously.


 
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And that is?

No idea 😉


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 5:17 pm
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Its a primitive dildo!


 
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Rusty Rudder


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 5:22 pm
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run you fool .... 😉


 
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Looks like a chain whip with no chain


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 5:26 pm
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It could be a replica of a mask for a trout.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 5:26 pm
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[i]run you fool[/i]

Now put it down and run some more.


 
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The Sword of Damocles

Can't be, that dangles above your head

@Pook wins the (upper?) middle classer of the day award 🙂

@tilly that's just a load of rowlocks

OP its a bit of rusty old metal which has been in the sea quite a while. IGMC


 
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My money's on a rusty a axle u-joint from a jeep or something.


 
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[img] https://goo.gl/images/z5rSrq [/img]

One of these used to turn pipe on oil rigs and such.


 
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[i]@Pook wins the (upper?) middle classer of the day award [/i]

If pook were upper middle class he'd have pointed out that the Sword of Damocles was an allusion 😉


 
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the remains of one of these!!!
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Could be there be treasures a bounty under that sands. Arrh arrh


 
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If pook were upper middle class he'd have pointed out that the Sword of Damocles was an allusion
looks pretty real to me

[/LCotD]


 
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Orange 5 swing arm ?


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 7:57 pm
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Ignition key for a magic carpet


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 9:02 pm
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One of these?

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And that is?

Actually the picture I posted is a turnbuckle spanner - for tightening the lashings on shipping containers.

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No idea if it's what the OP found, though.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 9:43 pm