Mudlarking on the Thames - Unexpected & Unusual gifts from the River both ancient & new(August 2021)
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- The River Thames is a giant liquid story book of treasures both ancient and new. 3000 year old treasures make their way to the surface to be found centuries after they were lost, and modern objects sit on the river bed waiting to be found at low tide! Pilgrim badges or sunglasses. You can never tell what you are going to find from one day to the next. That is what keeps us going back to search the mud. In this video I mudlark at one end of the Thames, and then travel up to opposite end near Putney to meet up with Tobias Neto @Tob2n and Lukasz Orlinski who are mudlarks and metal detectorists. They have both found some wonderful historical treasures.Tobias Neto found a Victoria Cross in the Thames in 2015 and you can find out more about it here and decide for yourself which of the two soldiers could have lost it in the murky depths of the Thames:-
• Mudlarking with Nic Wh...
Lukasz has found some wonderful pilgrim badges from medieval times as well as a 3000 year old bronze age spearhead.
In this video, we go from one extreme to the other - finding ancient history and modern artefacts. It pays to keep an open mind when you are larking on the Thames.
Please check out Tobias TH-cam channel at @Tob2n
You can follow me on twitter and instagram @tidelineart and if you would like to treat me to a virtual cup of tea, then my kofi account is here. ko-fi.com/nico...
All donations very gratefully accepted and used to improve my channel - or for a nice cup of tea!
If you would like to book a ticket to the talk I mentioned at the end of the video then the link is here:-
thamesfestival...
Oh and of course, dont forget that if you would like to try mudlarking the River Thames - you need a permit from the Port of London Authority. Link here :-
www.pla.co.uk/...
Thanks for watching everyone. I love to read your comments and feedback so please keep them coming! Take care, look after yourselves. Sending you love from here in London.
See you soon.
Nicola
Nicola White
www.tidelineart.com
#mudlarking #nicolawhite #tidelineart
Thank you for watching everyone. Im out this Sunday evening watching my son Angelo playing the main stage in Faversham with his band @collateralrocks so when this video goes live I'll be rocking out there like all good rock mums - so, will come and respond to any comments later on! In the meantime I really hope you enjoy this outing on the River - the second half of which is with Tobias Neto and Lukasz Orlinski. Do go and check out Tobias Neto's TH-cam @tob2n and also, I mention the Totally Thames Festival which is taking place between 1st and 30th September, and you can find out what's going on there at this link, including my talk on Sunday 19th September at Woods Quay in London :- thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/a-mudlarks-feast-4862/ Catch you all later. Love Nicola xx
Oh Faversham, lovely historic place, good luck to Angelo
Hope Angelo & the band and you are having a great evening!
NO, no, thank you for 40mins of complete bliss, your videos are done in such a way as I feel like I'm right there mudding with you and not 5000 miles away. The music, I presume much of it Angelo's, the shots with the wildlife, how you approach a new find, and your excitement as the stem slowly keeps entering daylight for the first time since the owner threw it (or lost it) into the Thames. And the stories, just awesome!
I hope your son rocks it and everyone has a great time.
Love to Angelo and the band xxx
Have a nice time. Missed you last week.
I’m in America but wanted to thank you and all of the Mudlarks who take the extra time & effort to properly dispose of plastic waste found during your adventures. Every piece matters ✌️💚
Agreed! I don’t understand how anyone can litter anywhere. It’s so irresponsible and I appreciate your efforts to clean up the Thames! I never allowed my children to throw even the tiniest bit of garbage out the car window. Again, thanks Nikola and other mudlarkers for helping and being responsible!!! 🙂🙂
@Dish Murphy I totally agree with you. Every piece does matter for the beautiful wildlife who are so innocent when it comes to some human errors. And every now and then they have a massive clean up with the River Trust.
"Every piece DOES matter"!
Haven't watched this till the end yet, but I wanted to say that your videos have helped me a lot as I'm currently mostly housebound due to a nasty combination of mental health issues and the pandemic. I watch these and paint and for a while everything is okay. Thank you.
Same here Enne. You are not alone. Sending virtual hugs.🤗
Me too enne, its physical disabilities and pandemic isolation for me. Hang in there. Xx
I am sending my best wishes as well, I also suffer from disability, chronic pain, and her videos are so relaxing. Thank you Nicola.
You are all not alone. I have been really bad for the last few weeks. Best wishes everyone.
I find watching Nicola very calming x
THE REAL TRESURE
In the wind
a child runs
happily
along the river
sees the clouds chasing after each other
let's himself go to that feeling
nothing around him.
Wanders from that place
until just the smell of grass
brings him into another world
and it's a surreal feeling
possessing all
and nothing.
(Benedetta Santangelo)
love your poem XX
Made me take a deep breath...wanted to smell the grass and feel the wind. Thank you for sharing Ulisse.
What a sad detachment you have from the topic reality and the surreal reality of what is.
I have an interest in edged weapons, seeing that beautiful Bronze Age spear head in such incredible condition was amazing, the technical skills they had over three thousand years ago are a testament to human abilities when you think that was made with the most basic technology; clay, charcoal and knowledge that was passed from master to apprentice.
Crosby Hall is a historic building in London. The Great Hall was built in 1466 and originally known as Crosby Place in Bishopsgate, in the City of London. It was moved in 1910 to its present site in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. It now forms part of a private residence, which in 2021 was renamed Crosby Moran Hall.
Maybe??
That's what I also thought. Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby_Hall,_London
Good video, good photography, good finds. Love the buttons. AZ USA
Great video Nicola. Sun glasses eh? At least the sun will no longer blind you in the summer seasons 😃 wow, so many padlocks. The ones with names on are gems them self. See you next time!
So fun! What a historical treat! Your son might be a rock star, but so are you and you now have the shades to look like the rocker you are!
Nice 1980's 1990's music theme on this vídeo. Reminds me my the teens years...
Loved the blue elongated bead. Also, the spearhead was amazing!
I like it when you take footage of the surrounding animals, especially the birds.
WOW !! Just WOW !!! Thomas Beckett !!! Bronze age !!! Such glorious finds !! Thank you for sharing !
OK Nicola, you got relaxed on that walk and I got relaxed watching you do it! Thanks!
I just wanted to thank you for introducing Michal I do think he has a lucky charm lol , like always l luv your videos, very informative historical stories and your pipe collection luv it thanks for sharing my friend 👌❤😘
Thank you
@@nicolawhitemudlark what is the letters T,W on a pipe Thomas w?
I don't remember what you said is it white,or Williams
Lucasz is a sweetheart. His finds are phenomenal I couldn't believe it.!!!!!
A wonderful adventure with friends and I Thank You Kindly Nicole! The locks? Ear rings of course and with those Ray Bans! I mean Wow! The ultimate Larking statement! Love, Light, Joy of Spirit! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Wow, Lukasz' s finds are mind blowing!
love watching these videos xx
Wow...Lukasz found some once in a lifetime finds...actually 4 lifetimes! I am thrilled he shared with us.
metal pipe stems what ever next interesting my family tree goes back to 1270 pilgrims and settlers who went to new haven USA so good to see the badge, shame about modern day rubbish in our rivers today. Nice one Nicola.
Une superbe video de la vie sauvage et des ravages de la pollution dans ce super fleuve. Mais de belles trouvailles au rendez-vous et surtout un gros pouce bleue pour la vidéo. 👍👍👍👍
Nice video! I loved your friends Thomas Becket finds. He is working on a remarkable group of beautiful relics!
Wow what a wonderful video! I realized yesterday that one of my finds I dug up in February is a ampulla... very happy!! Keep well and making your splendid videos.🙂🐻
Lovely video once again, always a pleasure. I wondered if the ceramic is anything to do with Crosby Hall in Bishopsgate Street. That was the only thing I could find that alludes to the ceramic.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and regards to you,
Rod x
Thank you
Excellent outing, Nicola. Particularly impressed by Lukasz’s Thomas Beckett finds. Bravo for him.
Looking forward to more of your intriguing outings. Be well…from Thurso, Quebec, CANADA.!
Thank you ❤️
3000 years bronze spear ?! Who made it? Was it imported trade item, captured, brought by merchant visitor , invading army, product of a local culture? Metallurgy? Purpose of Design of loops on blade,?Any others like it? Love how this mudlarking fires curiocity and imagination, from pipe bowls, coins, buttons, fossils, to sunglasses padlocks musket balls typeface to pilgrims , the real people's lives they connect us to... thank you so much...and, the local landscapes foreshores are very relaxing too.
Wonderful program, be it RayBans (nice find...I'd keep those!) or Bronze Age spearpoints (that was a nice bit of history with Lucasz' spearpoint & lead pieces and Tobias' Victoria Cross). So civilized!
Wow plenty of Sunglasses Nicola. Reminded me of the Tracy Ullman song. Sunglasses lol. Great Vlog as always.
Awesome fines there fantastic enjoy your special day with nic🙏❤👍
That bone metal clay pipe combo is weird, maybe it was a custom clay pipe holder, one possible theory might be that bone might've been less abrasive to the teeth than the damage of smoking clay pipes all the time? The part Bellarmine face is gorgeous!
So much plastic in the river it's so sad, I pick up and remove what I can when I am out mudlarking but the plastic is worse when there has been bad weather and it has ended up in the Thames.
Loving the sunglasses 😎 and the Dove Type, I have found a few pieces of type on the foreshore would love to find a piece of the Dove Type one day xx
I so enjoy your videos. It makes my Sundays, thank you.
These finds are incredible! Such history which is a favorite thing of mine. Where I grew up I found many British coins that dated from about 16 to 1800's and a lot of other things. This was in New England.
I just watched a repeat of " The Curse of Oak Island" last season, second to the last one and they had found some shards of pottery. The person said that there was a piece of clay pipe in amongst them. I immediately though of you and also the trip that it would have had to make!
Thanks again for all the time and work the you do to bring us these amazing videos! And please, stay safe!
Always watching your videos and seeing the items you and your friends find.
Always loving your videos! I hope you had a fabulous time rocking out!
thanks. I sure did!
Thank you once again Nicola for another fascinating video. What incredible finds Tobias had. Made me go all shivery. I would love to know where you were on the Thames . It looked a bit like Chiswick or looking over to Mortlake maybe. It’s so wonderful for me being a Thames dweller until I was forty…it’s my home. Barnes, Hammersmith bridge, Twickenham, RICHMOND…I wonder if anyone ever found my gold wedding ring I threw in the river at Twickenham when my first marriage broke up? ……love your videos. xx
Highlight of my day is when you post anything on TH-cam xxx keep em coming...maybe time for an all girls reunion xxx
thanks Sue, Yes, high time for a ladies who lark!
Wow super cool finds by Tobias. Thanks.
What an amazing video today loved the finds from Thomas 👍
Oh wow. Tobias has such incredible finds. I have never seen the square version of the Thomas Beckett pilgrim's badge. While I am not an expert on pilgrim's badges or ampula I have done some research because I do medieval pewter casting in soap stone and have cast one based on a picture from the British Museum. Making an ampula is definitely on my bucket list but I still have not figured out how to do slush casting yet. Meaning pouring molten pewter into the mold, letting it partially set, then pouring out the still molten pewter while leaving behind the solidified 'rind' closest to the mold.
Thank you for another heartwarming & thought-provoking video, Nicola. As usual, I paused the video so many times to find more background or research a point you or your guests made. Cheers, good health, and fortuitous mudlarking from Seattle! 👋🏼🙋🏽♀️✌🏽
Thank You Nicola for great video!!❤️
Hi Nicola🤗🤗 Peter from Ga USA..... What amazing buttons to start off with🤩 It is always nice to have spare sun glasses around😎😎😎 It is very sad how much more modern rubbish we find in the water ways🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I do my best to clean up any that I find.... Thank you again for your amazing videos!!!! Hugs and hello again and please stay well, and happy treasure hunting....... - Peter Ga USA
i have been river walking and found stone balls in river bed the size of a bowling ball nobody seems to now what they are
The earliest cannonballs were made of stone. Partly because there wasn't enough metal available to make expendable munitions out of lead or iron, but also because the back pressure from a heavy metal ball might well be too strong for early cannon. Stone balls _scaled_ the forces to what the metallurgy and construction methods of early cannon could stand. There are other things they could be, though. If they were weights for nets, there would be a hole or a groove so they could be tied on to something.
Sorry I am just joining, I was busy watching Chelsea clobber Arsenal😅. What can I expect today Nicola?
You are absolutely amazing.
I absolutely love your videos! I find them very informative and relaxing. The footage of London and the local nature, along with the sound of the river is just very calming. It seems that the Mudlark/Detectorist community is a very friendly and generous group.
Loved what was one your channel all the finds are so interesting x
Good hunting from Montreal Canada 🇨🇦
The video should be entitled ‘Shades of White’. Thanks Nic
Hey Nichola White I’m sorry I haven’t been here in a while, boy sure have missed you. I’m going to get my metal detector out and I’m going to the beach now that I hope that most of the tourists have gone home here from Surfside Beach South Carolina and I’m gonna get out on the beaches… we’ve had several storms out off the coast and that usually brings in lot of good stuff. So I’ll be thinking of you out there when I am searching with my wife, and my dog and my metal detector. You take care of yourself and have a really good day and be safe. Stay well.
You came over to Guernsey ? that's awesome can't wait for the video to come out and see what you explored over here.
yes, my mum lives there. I love it out there!
Concerning your locks you were given you could do a bagel and locks spin on lunch at the museum ,to draw in more people just a thought lol
thanks...
Guernsey! Oh, envy!
All that plastic is really terrifying. We will not go down in history as the technological age, but as the age of plastic pollution :(
Fantastic fine I’m in or just looking At your video
Nicola,
It is so good to see you out and about with those
two friends.
Is it Thomas Beckett or Thomas A. Beckett?
Have enough pieces of that type beem found to reconstruct it on the computer?
Cheers,
Rik Spector
hello Rik, yes i believe a man named Robert Green collected enough pieces to digitalise it. there is a lot on the net about it. It's Thomas Becket. Not sure of his middle name
@@nicolawhitemudlark I just saw Mr. Green on BBC News Entertainment and Arts, so interesting along with other clips of fascinating places.
Thank you so much!
Rik
Crosby stills Nash and Young classic band. Nothing to do with pottery though. Good find
It strikes me that the tide flats of islands like Man or Jersey (where I guess was found recently a large Celtic hoard of coins) also Guernsey or Anglesey (important to the Celts) or Wight might be good locations for finding interesting ANCIENT historical finds if that is what people want to find. Perhaps these are places that relative to the Thames may have smaller and more concentrated shorelines which we can be absolutely sure were regularly trod and used by Romans, Celts, Vikings, and Medieval people and which maybe were not so heavily overlain by subsequent industrial activity in a major port like London. I hasten to add that the Thames foreshore produces absolutely fascinating relics from all periods and each piece found is very interesting because of what the objects say, whether its a simple Hindu statue or a pilgrim's badge or typeface from an historic press; all are fascinating.
I think Katie from Kit and Kabootle found the beard that goes to your shard of Bartman. If you 3 meet up you should try to puzzle them together.
Hello Nicola from San Diego CA
Looks like bishops stortsford, a town in England
After watching your videos for some time, I have come to the conclusion that I need my eyes tested. ✔
Make a coffee table with them under glass .
Why are there so many clay pipes in the river? Did everyone smoke them while they were swimming in the Themse? :-) Or was it like a ritual to throw them in the river?
Greetings from Germany
PS: Your Videos are very interesting!!!
If you look through her video back catalogue you'll see she answers your questions here xx
@@ashbell6712 Thank you, I found the Video👍
they were disposable!
Hope you enjoyed your coffee
Peter Storm rainwear brand emblem
was that a shovel when you went to wash the pipe
Wild boar is Sanglier in french?
Bishops Stortford.
Natty pipe holder ; ) some innovator placing his pipe in a cheroot for elegance if not I think that would be my go to pipe maker ; very nice. Enjoy your festival . Would not have recognised many of the mudlarking sites in England if it were not for going to Blues Festivals across the country with my husband who is a blues singer /songwriter all original songs. Check out Got a New Job : The Roach Twins on spotify ; worth a listen if you are into music . Let me know if you do .
Thank you
The owner of that white clay pipe may have been from a wealthy class.
I covet your bartmann fragment: well found
I've often wondered while watching you and Si finds, whether you ever use the pretty buttons and beads you find on clothing? Lovely video once again. Hope your enjoying your son's concert x
Thanks. Yes, I have done that!
If it's naval it must be a belly button 🤔Cheers Nicola🍻
Surely a navel button!
Spell out “lockdown “ with your padlocks and mount them on wood.
Love your videos. Thank you.
We look forward to Sunday nights and a new Video from you.
When the world seems mad and not much makes sense we have the lovely muddler Nicola to make us smile with her little treasures, taking us out for an hour or so to test our eyesight and teach us some history. Hugs xxxx
love your comment Stephanie ... Nicola has always loved getting muddy and bringing home treasures! I should know, I'm her Mum X
@@anitacarey2389 As a child who grew up on the sea, filling my pockets with stones and crab shells and bits of wood I totally understand her passion. I've said it before Nicola is a cheap date! Give her an old button, a pipe or lead toy and she is a happy bunny. I used to muddle in old dumps and was thrilled with a poison bottle of old jam pot. I love these moments with her on the shore. xoxo
I used to live in London and was just talking to my brother in law, who currently lives there, about how much I love Putney and the rowers. So nice to see it again!
Thank you as always for such thoughtful videos
Good to see you, Nicola! What a fun collab with Tobias and Lucasz, thanks for sharing some of their amazing treasures with us. Wish I could be rocking out to Collateral in person, that would be a blast! :-)
Hi, Nic! Good Sunday!!
Absolute class act.Beautiful Intelligent and eloquent.
I can imagine that the spear was inside a body, human or animal, that met its end in the river. As the body decomposed, the wood hand came loose and worn away, all that was left was the spearhead in the mud.
53 likes in 10 minutes. Nicola, you are good! Not too much headbanging at the concert hey :) nice video as always.
It's at 290 now 10am west coast American time apx 45mins after your comment. There are two dislikes as well, must have been an error.
@@wildlifeathome Thanks! there's quite a lot now! It wont put me off though :) x
@@nicolawhitemudlark I certainly wouldn't, it's .005% of us, I just wonder why, maybe they have Rupophobia, fear of dirt or rubbish (a new word for me!) Have a great day!
Plastic, must be one of the greatest inventions, but its haunting us now😞. Apart from our rubbish, enjoyable, thanks Nicola
Thank you Nic for a wonderful video! So fascinating to see everyone's best finds!!
Haven't you heard of the old tradition, where hipsters throw their sunglasses in a river for good luck?
you spelled assholes wrong
@@therealOXOC 😆
oh and here i was thinking some people were head-dipping in the river because it was too hot
Nature,history and Princess Nicola, how could it get any better????
Good afternoon x how wonderful to see your son playing, in a group. Brilliant. ❤️ 💕. Well done to him x
I find it ironic that Lucasz can give us a history lesson. Hope those finds of his go to a museum and a reward to him.
I’m like you… can I touch it , pick it up, just be amazed at how old this thing is in my hand!😁
Hi Nicola 👌👌👌Good luck 🤞🤞🤞👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Thank you Nicola I really enjoy your video.
Another great adventure Nicola and so many really interesting things. Such a shame about the amount of waste going into our waters
Lovely finds, the buttons would make very good stamps for pottery, another good vid.
Interesting Sunday moment of mud larking Nicola, I missed it last week. Today made up for that. Your guests were fantastic, best wishes to them both I learnt a lot.
Thanks. Great work keep it up.
Such kind and generous friends! Wow! A Bronze Age spear!
Great finds Nicola. Now you have plenty of sunglasses! Could you please model them for us. Stay safe.
I would love to see your locks displayed on a colored piece of driftwood. They’re so beautiful. 💖
Thanks. Great idea
12:47 - The geese were clearly annoyed at having to follow you at high speed up from Greenwich. They must have been exhausted!
Lukasz has the most adorable smile, his entire face lights up!
Thank you! Good job!😉😁
Well, if "the futures so bright, you've got to wear shades. . ." you've certainly got them! And special thanks to Lukasz for sharing his remarkable finds.
The Peter Storm badge used to be on waterproof jackets. I had one as a child ( I am 60) and I still have the badge - but not the jacket!!
Me too, I knew what it was straight away. My Peter Storm badge is blue. I also have a couple of (very non-PC) Robertson’s jam badges in my jewellery box too. Nicola, I once walked along the River Tamar, near Saltash, (near the viaduct south of Burraton Coombe) where naval ships would be moored back in the day. I found a little blue jug with a hole in it and no handle, which still we use as a toothbrush mug 40 years later, and a piece of pottery with Per Mare Per Terram, which was significant as my husband was a Royal Marine at the time.
Peter Storm also made the greatest waterproof sailor's sweaters - oiled wool. to be kept !