Our incredible discovery - The last of the Victorian treasures! See what we make with our finds!

hello hi so this video is a little bit of an update video from our video we posted several weeks ago now bottled it we stumbled upon Victorian treasure so we stumbled upon a bottle them a few months ago now and we've come back the site has been completely filled in but we've come back to see if anything that's still left around on the surface and then we have been back since and found several more bottles which we will be showing you yeah as part of the roundup right now we're just here looking for it's interesting broken things that have been left on the surface yeah just a sort of roundup yes and we'll show you all the goodies that we found on previous visits at the end so stay tuned for that anyway let's get to it even the place isn't still is now filled in we are still withholding the location because unfortunately there are people out there who will come back and dig the place over but we are just here looking at the surface finds because there's lots and lots of broken up bits of pottery just lying around oh what's that see that oh it's a bead oh that's a little bass bead oh I didn't expect to find a bead oh that's lovely Oh first find ok I've just seen something lying just on the surface up here and oh my god I'm like oh wow it's hole oh my god look we have loads of these now one more thing to find in its hole machines riding all over here so we can expect one and they'll be doing something but I that is a really red looking brick that's really weird that's so red what is this it's like really red it's like some kind of tile we'll keep it just in case it's some really nice some green pottery to be found oh yeah to make something that yeah just under mom here I spot a very distinctive top of a bottle that is the top of a cod bottle but only the top sadly oh yes they're pretty think I found a handle oh yeah oh I found a golden handle whoa oh it's so wet camera I could hardly see out of it you've got some pieces lovely Jeremy what Oh a fork a night bottle stopper and it's got a zigzag pattern on it there see zigzag oh look why found look look what am I looking at it's a cottle Alec the base of bottle and it probably said week which is a local town oh wow Oh big JA wow yeah wow that would have been a huge jar oh oh look can you see what I can see right now it looks like an ink bottle oh don't say it's another whole ink pot oh my god it is it's another whole ink bottle how they survived just built so well these are all bottles I'll have to go in to show mum look another one so many treasures that will be underneath my feet right now Oh it's hard to leave them behind oh oh yes we found a hole but it's Alex Perry's ginger beer oh it's all smashed up though oh but we could actually make jewelry out of this can we yeah we could cut out the Thistle because I really love the Thistle look at that lovely piece of sponge around oh yeah Scottish sponge where yeah oh that's pretty I've never seen a bit on the inside Oh on the inside that would have been a lovely dish like maybe it's some kind of serving bowl or something coffee or a party in here still things defined for us anyway for most people it's rubbish but you know one man's trash and all that like Cornish way I think it is Cornish we're actually yeah Mabry just politely asked the river to flood and unwashed some goodies out for us that would be nice that's a circuit board it's definitely definitely not Victorian I'll take it because it's motivation I quite like second words for some reason look at this tiny little bulb if you bow that's got a sprout it's gone up sprout what is that it's tiny live well buried yeah like our bottles oh well that's pretty well you can see Sona pottery still lying around it was nice to come back and say goodbye to this wonderful dump but now we're gonna go home get nice and warm and show you the amazing things we did find when we were able to take here so I came back to that dump and I think see look it's just chock-a-block I've got the gloves this time because I cut up my hands and pretty badly last time stupidly I brought some gloves that had a hole in the end of one of the fingers and I cut up the end of my finger pretty badly on both hands cuz I swapped the glove over and then cut up the other hand just as badly anyway and just wanted to say I'm here a lot of people asked me if I was gonna come back and I have you can see I've done I've dug a little bit and this has been someone here as well I can I can tell that I've been here and made quite the mess as well so yeah I may continue digging and and see what see what I find this take I'm really exciting it was great fun so um yeah I'll let you know - mum isn't actually with me today she's actually somewhere else looking at another location I expect they dumped bottles so while she is she's off looking for another locations I've come back here and these Cod bottles which and I love and but I'm gutted that they're pretty much all of them are broken I might take some of them and trying upcycle them and reuse them as something else and not all of them have anything on them but the ones that do I'm definitely gonna take this time [Music] oh look at that yeah mum not some nice China as well she wants me to bring from China sir Micke jewelry out of an Wadi okay anyway I'm gonna get digging because I can't hold it off any longer I have to pick up to do some dig this is some bit of a poison bottle I found last time broken sadly a little bit gutted about that but yeah I can't wait to get stuck in so I'm gonna turn you guys off and and yeah begin put my gloves on this time is a figurine here Oh oh she's missing a head oh my god no way I have the head of I have this I have this woman's head I recognize that clothes I'm gonna take that and see if their head matches up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh my god [Music] look how many eight bottles we have we found so many ink bottles and I picked every single one of them up so you'll have to stay tuned until the end to see what we actually do with these bottles because we do have a bit of a surprise because mum and I had a bit of an idea and yeah we made it come to life so yeah stay tuned to the end to see what happens to these ink bottles [Music] so we got all of our bottles cleaned up it took us hours actually we had to clean them up over two days and it probably took us like five six hours altogether but I've chosen some of the bottles here and Jos to talk about because they've got quite an interesting history and we've done hours of research too and I've got lots of reason yes so I'll turn the camera round show you what we've got and yeah tell you some of the history okay so here we are with some of our beautiful bottles and I wish I could talk about every single one of them but I'm just gonna pick out a few for this roundup that we really like the history on so I'm gonna start with our cream jar here and it's got a really beautiful depiction of a lady or now holding a three-legged stool and a milk bucket it says pure fresh cream week tint your creamery Stran raw and interestingly we actually mum actually has explored collection of cream jars and we also have one from stran Rob but it's actually not as nice as the one we found in the dump you can see that the depiction is not as clear anyway so the way ginger Creamery ran from 1888 to 1912 and the cream jars used by the Wigner creamery company were manufactured by the Caledonian pottery company in Rutherglen in glasgow and after 1912 the he's a black transfer logo and before 1912 they used these brown dyes so we know that our jar here is a brown imprint so we know that that is was made before 1912 whereas the one mum already had as a black transfer so we know that this is a later one and the one that we found in our dump is an earlier one so there are cream jars really beautiful so the next bottle I'm going to talk is this interesting chemist Buttle medicine abandon bottle it says fellows and coal chemists st. John and B now st. John this from st. John in New Brunswick in Canada and it was founded by Isaac fellows and his son James in about the 1850s and this particular bottle we think may have contained quite a dangerous substance so it could have contained what they called fellows compound syrup of hyper phosphorus which contained potash lime iron manganese Quinn een stricken Aang and phosphorus and stricken is actually a deadly poison it causes if taken in large quantities muscle contractions and those muscle contractions can actually cause the death you can actually strangle yourself to death so by taking by taking stricken een you can actually kill yourself so this was actually a deadly poison and I actually wonder how people died taking Isaac's medicine here by 1870 the company had expanded to Montreal New York and London and in 1919 the name of the business changed to fellows medical manufacturing co and B 1960 it merged with Tesco n Co incorporated so this actually became a very profitable and very successful business despite the poison so that's quite interesting and horrifying at the same time well I'll put that back and the next bottle I think I'll talk about it's this one with this strange substance inside now you can see it's kind of pinkish color and we actually believe that that has garnets in it crushed up garnets gone it's a very hard stone and when crushed up it makes a great abrasive a great and abrasive polish in particular to polish metal and this particular bottle this product is for polishing silver plated goods or silver goods so if you are a follower after Thames mud lux you'll know that garnets are actually found scattered all over the foreshore and it one of the theories of why they're there is because the garnets were brought in to be crushed up and used in such a polish now that's just one of the theories that maybe one of the bags fell off a ship and landed down there on the foreshore a crate or something who knows but that's one of the theories and it's interesting to think that that might be what's in this bottle anyway this was made by Warren Hall and it says instantaneous plate cleaner Sheffield this was made by George Walker and Henry Hall they were silversmiths a paracelsus that joined partnership eventually after being in partnership with them other people previously they joined party ownership in 1853 and branches of theirs were opened in Australia Island and South Africa and they had a very very profitable electroplating business and they sold tableware cutlery anything made of silver or anything things gilded or such things like that so I'm not sure exactly when they started manufacturing this but it makes sense that they manufactured polish to go along with their silver plating business so that's not that really into the products actually preserved because you can see in the top there the stopper is actually cracked off it's got a screw in a screw top stopper and so it's kind of sealed everything in there it's amazing so that's that what else have we got um right yes this butter is beautiful gorgeous green bottle and this has a really interesting history actually it has nothing emboss on the sides but you turn over to the bottom and it has Snow Hill BW Co London so I thought the other history on this was really quite the company was actually actually set up in 1879 by two Americans Silas burrows and Henry welcome they set up a pharmaceutical company in London and began to export import and sell compressed pills and business was a huge success in Britain and they opened some large offices in Snow Hill in about 1883 big beautiful lavish buildings and they imported American walnut they really oversaw especially Henry I think really oversaw the building of this of these offices and they had a huge golden eagle in the entrance and a replica Statue of Liberty they are really proud of their roots in where they'd come from and they put a lot of love into this building but sadly I also read that back during the Blitz in 1941 the building was completely destroyed a bomb landed right on top of it and it's no longer there so it's quite a sad story but quite an interesting one and next I think I'll pick up this this beautiful bottle here it's another beautiful bottle I can see if i zoom in there bubbles and things on the neck really beautiful anyway this is melon's infant food and it has a London written on the bottom so we found out a quite an interesting little story about this one as well Mellon's infant food was invented by Gustav mellon in England in 1866 it was a milk modifier used as a substitute for breastfeeding it was made from dried malt and bicarbonate of potassium and was mixed with cow's milk and water the food was marketed towards mothers who couldn't breastfeed basically it was advertised as melons food for infants and invalids the only perfect substitute for mother's milk and really interestingly actually in 1902 the Mellon's food company sponsored the construction of the UK's first airship Stanly Spencer the ship the airship carried melons adverse mints on the side and on the 22nd of September 1902 was flown across London from Crystal Palace to Harrow so it's a really unusual interesting story there and a really beautiful bottle we're gonna put that in the window for the sea glass as well right what else we have what's next I think I'll talk about this really unusual shaped bottle here that has quite an interesting story of our own we were actually watching Antiques Roadshow and this one brought in a picture of these two military men sitting at the table and the expert said oh I see them sitting there with their bottle of hawk and I was like oh my we I actually found one of these bottles in the dump and we didn't know what it was so that's how we found out what kind of bottle this was and we looked it up and we found some information on it that I've got here so this bottle here is a hawk or Rhine shaped wine bottle and during the 19th century they contain both red and white wines white white Rhine and Mosel wines the turn hawk is thought to be derived from hawk helm a vineyard village in Germany from which the first main Rhine wines were exported to Britain the bottles were free blown or dip moulded which so they were blowing into a mold and they returned you can actually see the ripples on here see those like ripples that kind of go around the bottle so they were blowing into a mold and then the bottle was turned in the mold and that's why they kind of have these ripples on it I'm not sure you can see anyway they have a beautiful graceful shape and bottles in the 19th century or early 20th century and most are most often of olive olive green or amber and I think we read that this was a rarer one because it's kind of a you can just about see it there it's kind of a reddish amber color and which is a little bit more unusual it's a really beautiful bottle it's a shame it does actually have a chip in the top there but we can display it like that so it's fine so it's really it's really crazy how we actually found out what that was just by complete coincidence so I think that's just about it that I'm going to talk about because I'll be here forever just talking about everything but we have one more thing and mums just reminded me this lid down here now we thought this had a really interesting story so I'll find my information so this unassuming little jar lid here it says a lower glass lower glass works Co and it was established in 1750 and quite surprisingly established by Lady Frances s keine o earth skying workers were trained by craftsmen from Bohemia and of course Bohemia had the modern-day Czech Republic had the you know the best skilled glass makers in the world came from that part of the world they oversaw the construction of the first glass cone on the site which stood at 27 meters tall and glass cones were structures containing a central furnace and smaller furnaces around the edge for the production of glass now this glass cone it still remains on the site actually and is protected as an ancient monument and it's only one of four found or so that's have survived in the UK so that's quite amazing really so while Lady Frances established the Glass Works in 1750 it was later named a lower Glass Works and there is actually still a Glass Works there today which is really quite amazing so Lady Frances is quite you know an inspiration really being a woman having such a successful business back then it's a shame and there's not much information out there about her anyway that is a very interesting and an important bit of history actually and I'm so glad that mom actually went to the trouble of looking that up because we weren't actually gonna look that up at all so no yeah now I'm going to show you who they are now I'm going to show you what we actually did with our ink bottles but now you're gonna see the finished result so I really hope you liked it and thank you for watching and bye bye [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] my beautiful candles they turned out a success and mums amazing amazingly designed label and here we've burnt one of the candles and it's run down the bottle then it looks amazing so our idea was it success and I hope you like them because they're going to be in our Etsy shop very soon and this was like them too so thank you again for watching and we'll see you next time bye [Music]

Channel: Northern Mudlarks

Views: 78,018

Rating: 4.9513006 out of 5

Keywords: bottle digging, treasure hunting, mudlarking, History, Digging history, Metal detecting, Victorian, victorian dump

Id: TV_JZE7bRYI

Length: 35min 39sec (2139 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 19 2019