Artwork and other items fashioned from materials that were salvaged from far north beach cleans are to be sold to boost the coffers of a local environmental charity.
Among items up for grabs tomorrow and on Saturday at the pop-up shop in Thurso is a collection of Victorian sauce jars unearthed on the beach at Castletown at the end of January.
One of the jars was found by Dorcas Sinclair, the organiser of Caithness Beach Cleans, and her friend Caroline Swan during one of the regular sweeps.
Mrs Sinclair and her husband Allan returned later and found 50 or so of the jars, thought to date from the mid-19th Century that were made for Aberdeen-based Thomas Curr & co.
Some were broken and would have been a hazard to beachgoers, but the rest have been cleaned up and are being put on sale.
Also in the shop window are door mats made from pieces of rope which washed ashore and bespoke wheelie bin closers made from recycled creel hooks and lengths of cord.
Artwork includes mobile phones made from pieces of driftwood; jewellery using groatie buckies; sand drawings etched on Caithness flagstone; and puffin prints.
Snacks are also available in the form of seaweed puffs.
All proceeds will got to Caithness Beach Cleans.
Since forming a year ago, its team of volunteers have collected 13-and-a-half tonnes of plastic and other debris from 20 or so beaches in Caithness and north Sutherland. This year alone, they have amassed five tonnes.
Mrs Sinclair said: “The amount we are collecting has gone up as we are now attracting a lot of more active members.
“It’s scary how much we have picked up.”
The shop at the foot of Princes Street is open from 9am-5pm today and Saturday.