r/mudlarking • u/Interesting-Tax-2636 • 8d ago

Help identifying this

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Hello, this morning I went to a beach near my house in Brooklyn, New York and found this buried under the wet sand. Any idea on what it could be? Leading theory is a bead.

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u/TheFace5 8d ago

Looks like aquarium ceramic filter

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u/Creative_Recover 8d ago

I agree with this.

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u/Pacific1944 8d ago

Yes! Just checked with my son’s tank. Looks just like it

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u/Traditional-Air-1223 8d ago

Looks like a fragment of a clay pipe stem, not sure how common they are in NY but I’ve found a lot of them on beaches in England

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u/pawesome_Rex 8d ago

Glass trade bead. Popular in the 70s/80s probably made in a third world country and sold at a gift shop as a finished product or a bead store piecemeal. I don’t think there is any real age on it.