Another trip to my favourite beach: Top left is a Plug No 1, missing about half of its mass; next is one end of a Fuze Percussion base Tracer No 281; the next three parts are unknown to me, all distorted; then there is the top of a No 250 Mk 1 Fuze and a more complete No 250 Mk 2 Fuze; then parts of a 2 Inch gauge Fuze, most likely No 119; then a .50 Inch case (base stamped SL 42); then last but not least a Fuze No 221B in its steel adapter - the fuze would not unscrew from the adapter. The small items below in the middle include a nail from the wreck of the ship Vicuna that sank in 1883. The base of the hull can be seen at low tide. It was a wooden ship originally coated in bronze sheeting on its underside and the sheets were nailed in place. Next is part of what I think is something similar to the No 281 Fuze but a bigger version (see the second photo); then there are pieces of driving band; a one inch long brass detent for a 4.2 Inch Mortar fuze; bullets, mostly .303 Inch tracer, one .303 Inch ball, and the lead from another bullet that has lost its jacket. In the bottom left corner is a Fuze No 221 Mk 1 missing its central post. Typically the aluminium fairing broke off on impact or, if it didn't break off, after 30 + years it tends to have `rotted' in the seawater.
