Albert and Marcia were on holiday. Their parents had brought them to the beach.
Albert was generally unimpressed with beaches, as he would rather explore a dark forest and see the variety of mosses and fungi that grow in the damp conditions.
On the other hand, Marcia loved to build enormous sand castles.
Albert enjoyed collecting limpet shells to decorate the outer walls of the turrets, which he secretly thought made them look like daleks.
Whilst digging sand for building, Marcia always liked to dig deep, to see if she could get to water coming through the sand from the sea.
When the castle was nearly complete, and Marcia needed more sand, she hit a large piece of rusty metal.
Curious as to what it was, Marcia kept digging to try to expose all of it, but it was very big and hard to get at as it was so deep in the sand.
Excited by the prospect of finding something unusual in the sand, Albert joined in to help dig out the entire object.
Almost an hour later, they had exposed most of a ship’s anchor.
During the excavation a crowd on onlookers had formed around them, who then proceeded to take selfies in front of the unusual piece of beach litter.
