That’s one well-traveled Salem witch.

Beach cleaners in North Wales on Jan. 31 discovered a delivery box labeled “The Salem Evening News,’’ along with its Salem witch logo, that had apparently floated all the way across the pond.

Lee Oliver, a Tidy Towns project officer for the area of Gwynedd, and students from Bangor University in North Wales discovered the yellow plastic box that newspaper carriers put papers in, Oliver said in a statement. The team was doing cleanup after the winter storms on Aberdesach Beach when they found the box washed ashore.

The box was noticeably grimy and worn down.

“I knew it was not from Britain and then noticed the flying witch,’’ Oliver said of how he deduced the origin of the box. “I had heard of the witch hunts of Massachusetts so I put [two and two] together.’’

He then contacted the newspaper, which is now called The Salem News.

The box is at least 20 years old. The Salem News was founded as The Salem Evening News in 1880 and renamed under new ownership in 1995.

Oliver said they do not have those types of newspaper delivery boxes in Britain.

“I initially thought it was a traffic cone or bollard,’’ he said.

The newspaper box is the “biggest find’’ that Oliver has seen from the United States, he said.

“We often find lobster pot tags from Newfoundland and this year I found a tag from Florida,’’ he said. “The fact it was linked to a newspaper, I thought it would be a great way to highlight the issue of marine waste and how far it can travel.’’

J.D. Capelouto can be reached at jd.capelouto@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jdcapelouto.