River Thames Mudlarking - Treasures & Trash!

hi everyone before we go for a mudlark along the River Thames in London I wanted to say thank you to everybody who watched my last video that you helped to identify this object here which I'd hoped was the Holy Grail but which isn't and it is in fact a bicycle lamp Josef Lucas carbide brass bicycle lamp dating back to about 1880 so thank you very much to everyone who helped to ID that so without further ado let's go down to the Thames foreshore and see what we're going to find today thank you [Music] well look at this this is exciting it's obviously part of a lid and I'm guessing maybe something Russian and so we do with hair maybe what do you think it's something shouldn't anyway and then an a.m. and then I just love the font on there look this stone is quite interesting it looks like it's got part of a fossil in it is that part of an economical scene perhaps certainly could be I'm not particularly strong on fossils I have to admit that definitely looks like some for a fossil I almost missed this I thought it was a piece of metal at first maybe an old bulb because it looks kind of a bit of a rusty color there's the stem and there's the bowl wedged in there and it looks like a nice ornamental Bowl there it is or you can see it gleaming see that black black gleaming color which will fade actually you will fade pretty fast let's go and give it a wash and just see what the design looks like here we are give it a rinse look at the pattern within a day or so that black will be replaced by less ivory freely color just down here I can see a little buckle here we are oh well here is somebody's modern cigarette lighter obviously someone who's visited room quite nice lighter can you see that pipestem just down there saves anything on the end of it given it an initial kind of test on it it feels quite solidly wedged in there so that might indicate that we might be lucky so let's have a little instruction see what's off the end of this pipe step Digga way around it see how its faring now it's still quite still quite some firmly wedged in get out shadows get out the way Oh still quite firmly Webster see if I can get my trowel underneath it because it's clearly I would say any tire pipe by the feelings of it right I think we're gonna get her out now it's just a little bit more careful extraction and yes oh yes there we are look another Beauty retrieved from the Thames Ahmad and to think that the last person who touched that is probably smoking it they're so delicate it's amazing to think that we survived that long see that beautiful curve a nice spur probably with a makers mark on it beautiful absolutely beautiful totally makes my day when I find a pipe like that shame about that plastic thing there Roth spoiling the the view I shall pick that up in a minute throw it away properly there we are that's better I've just seen what looks like possibly a little token down here just by that rock zoom in it's just there I haven't picked it up yet I'm gonna pick it up now see we can see what it is it's very very thin very thin oh it's a gorge it says you say yes georgeous can just make out georgeous on that side and this side I can't see a great deal but obviously not going to rub it cuz I'm gonna rub it everything off but there will likely some brush it off when I get home and we'll be able to identify it - seen down here evidence of a pipe Bowl surprise surprise oops lost it for a minute wait for the watch to go away extraction see how much white stem there is as usual lots of great deal I don't think but it's still an interesting role again very black at the time it's been in the mud that will clean off can't see what the design is but an easier to see it later on looks quite playing actually plain is good okay so can you see what I'm looking at I think you must be getting quite expert as well by now I'm going to zoom in on what I'm looking at it is oh yeah it's another part of a pipe and we can see that it's broken but we'll still pick it up and have a look at it just pull it out of its little comfy slot no yeah it's a nice plain pipe ball it's a little bit chipped on that side a nice shiny black color which will fade to ivory eventually sometimes you have to get down really close to the mud and just have a good look around you very very closely and then you might see something out of the ordinary and I've just seen this little little trim here which i think is the top of a pipe bomb seen a few so I'm pretty certain but sometimes all you can see is a tiny bit just poking out let's have a look it's probably just a bowl see what that balls looking like yes it's just a bowl and again it's quite a plain bowl I can see that it's got like a seam of the front a rinse off in a little mud pool over here let's look at it another Pikeville will be able to see it better when I get it home and give it a proper clean here I didn't see button and let's have a look and see if there's anything on there that we can trace back to a tailor or something there is something on there but this point I can't see it it might just be a Victorian workman's button so look somebody's key and it's the key for the new shed which by now is probably the old shed here come my feathery friends oh look what I've just found here's a gem I mean I doubt it's real but it's very pretty look at that it's called it up to the right I can see if I can I also stopped a wedged in there it's how I could see if it's got the name of a brewery on it I'll see if it's a plain one see I think it's oh no it's not planed it's got it's got an A on it and actually you know what I I'm not totally sure what that a stands for I have found a few of those now here's a pipe bowl that's a lot older of the previous ones I found today this was probably come from 1600 so I'd say early 1600s it was tell by the shape of the tiny bowl just see my stunning also stopper here in the but it's absolutely gorgeous look at this snow blue absolutely stunning [Music] interesting that have muscle shame that some of sebastian isn't there [Music] just down here there's a piece of shrapnel and now two aircraft guns [Music] now I find quite a lot of religious offerings but I've never found a large torso like this wonderful how definitely looks like the torso of some kind of God or Gaza goddess now talking of religious offerings I am always happy to meet this little chap on the foreshore ganesh god of many things but remover of obstacles is one of the things he's got off and god of new beginnings it's not always happy to see Ganesh he's one of the Holy Trinity in the Hindu religion I believe well the tides of its way in now and really if you want the time to go quickly then go mud Larkin I mean because the tide just you think you've got hours and then all you know at the time scream back in again it really doesn't wait for anyone so it's been a great morning on this Saturday the 29th of September and so now I'm going to go home and have a look at what I found [Applause] [Music] [Music] so let's have a quick roundup of what I found today starting with this fossil which i think is part of an economic and 80 million years and I've got a few other ones that I've found in the past and they were sea urchins for the most part and their name is derived from echinus which is Greek for hedgehog and did you know that birchen is also an old word for hedgehog we sometimes also refer to them as sugar leaves fairy loaves Shepherd's crowns and Pixies helmets and also eagle stones because the marks resemble claw marks this one here which was heart-shaped is particularly pretty is known as a my crust er so they are of course some of the oldest things that we find on the terms for sure this fragment of pot lid comes from a pot of Circassian cream for the hair which cost sixpence dates back to about 1870 and it was made by FS cleaver and I'll put a picture of the original pole lid after this description and Circassian was located in eastern europe near the Black Sea coast and the region was famed for its beautiful women so a number of products sprung up especially during Victorian times using the name Circassians of hair cream face cream so that's from Circassian cream for the hair and here is my pipe having a very successful more extracted pipe here I'd have been comparing it here with some pictures in my pipe book here and it looks as if it sort of matches that one there to the left and I think it comes from a round about the late 18th century early 19th century around about 1800 I think it does have a makers mark on the spur there but I can't quite make it out it sort of fits that shape that's the same sort of spur shape and when you compare it a very very tiny one that I found later on that morning and this one is a lot earlier that Bowl would have come from probably early 1600s and mid 1600s can often tell the age of a pipe by the shape of the bowl that's one of the ways of telling and smaller bowls generally mean the pipes are a lot older each because we found some other interesting pipes there's that one with that very ornate design on it and this one here which was slightly cracked nice little selection of pipes and pipe bowls found today and here's my shed keys please dropped off the new shed the lighter here's the piece of shrapnel that's pretty common find as well find a lot of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns stationed along the thames come across quite a lot of that here's my Volk and i will stop her I mean this a is actually quite a common sign on the vocal I bottle stoppers but I'm not too sure which brewery or which drink it refers to in case anybody does know here's the little bottle which I shall add to my buckle collection just I'll show you that a large collection of buckles here go through a huge collection many of them military some of them Georgian some of them a lot earlier and World War one and World War two and here is this little one to add to that collection here's my coin and I think it's George the third it's very very worn but you can just make out there his profile if you look very carefully George the third who reigned from 1760 to 1820 then lastly here is this piece of lead which once had something legible written on it maybe Tyne and Sons this lovely blue bottle stopper and my giant amethyst rather giant purple piece of glass we can always dream so that's about it so all in all not a bad day on the foreshore thank you very much for watching see you again soon [Music]

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Length: 25min 39sec (1539 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 16 2018