1/4/23 Report - Reader Finds Mid-1800s Stoneware. Beach Walker Finds Pliosaur Fossil But Received Little Credit. Mysterious Celestial Rock Carving.

 

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Nice Recent Treasure Coast Stoneware Bottle Find.

Justin found the above stoneware bottle and sent the following email message.

Hey, i enjoy your blog, good to see the bottle stuff every now and again. been out in the water all week and found my first stoneware bottle, looks to be a murray and buchan, 1860s from my research. thanks for all the good info.

justin

Nice find Justin. I like stoneware, but that is a nice early one.  I looked up the name and here is what  found.

Alexander Willison Buchan (Always known as A. W. Buchan) was born in 1833 to a Midlothian farmer, William.  

Buchan’s tenure of the site was no less than the 6th pottery works at the same location.  The Post Office Directories list “Murray & Buchan” from 1869, as stoneware manufacturers in Portobello. 

The works continued through family lines and suffered the same issues as many other potteries during the war periods; with workforce shortages and the replacement of stoneware jars with glass – but they persisted with help to a Government contract to produce stoneware rum bottles...

Here is that link.

Buchan Pottery - Scottish Pottery Society

One response in antique-bottles.net adds the following.

In 1867 the pottery of T Tough & Co in Portobello, Edinburgh, was bought by Alexander Buchan and Thomas Murray. They traded as Murray and Buchan, changing to A W Buchan & Co in 1882 when Murray dropped out of the partnership. They moved to larger premises in Crieff, Perthshire...

Thanks for sharing Justin.

Another example of always being someplace to hunt and something to find.

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Here is an amazing find by a man walking the beach that didn't get the credit he deserved.

A campaign has been launched to have a reptile that starred in Sir David Attenborough’s latest blockbuster documentary named after the amateur fossil hunter who found it, after complaints he was “airbrushed” from the BBC show.

Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster, which won widespread acclaim, has been criticized for only mentioning the finder of the pliosaur skull, Philip Jacobs, in the credits at the end of the program.

Jacobs said he was appalled, complaining on his Facebook page: “I’ve been completely airbrushed out of my own discovery, not even a mention. I have no words.”

He spotted the fossilized snout of the 150m-year-old pliosaur during a beach walk at Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, in April 2022. His discovery sparked a painstaking project to excavate the rest of the 2-metre (6ft 5in) skull from the cliffs that was documented by Attenborough and the BBC. The specimen is believed to be a new species of pliosaur...

Here is the link for more about that.

Calls for reptile star of Attenborough hit to be named after man who found it | David Attenborough | The Guardian

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A mysterious ancient artifact could help reveal the whereabouts of a star that exploded a supernova thousands of years ago and is no longer visible.

The artifact, which was found in Italy, is a stone disk featuring engravings that researchers believe form a celestial map of the night sky, according to a study published in the journal Astronomische Nachrichten.

In the study, the researchers identified several engravings on the disk that they said precisely match the locations of groups of stars visible in the night sky...

Here is that link.

Ancient 'Ritual Artifact' May Reveal Secrets of Deep Space (newsweek.com)

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Looks like we'll have some rainy days coming up.  Possibly in several days we'll see an increase in the surf.

Good hunting,

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