Washed-up Englishman

I know: a good description of me, some would say. Anyway, this Musselwick Sands (Marloes) find surfaced while I was tidying up yesterday (rainy day): a remnant, I’m sure, of the 1933 wreck of the schooner Englishman (built 1864, so she’d a very good innings). It’s concrete which had a steel hawser embedded, presumably part of her ballast; over time, the sea has dissolved the steel.

Below: the Englishman’s foredeck windlass, which I didn’t bring home.

Located near the top of the beach where the stream tumbles down the cliff; not always visible.