Pa-pa’s clay mermaid is chilling in her real queen ‘cockle shell jacuzz’ . She is approx 2 inches high. (Iron/greyblack) or patina (turquoise/green) bronze coloured.
On the Burry Inlet on the edge of the Gower Peninsula, South Wales these tasty shellfish have been harvested since the roman times. The women of Penclawdd, the small village on the estuary, used to pick the cockle shells to earn extra cash while their husbands were working down the coal mines.
