I have to say I'm really enjoying these Top Tens Richard, many thanks for doing them. I do like a good Mudlarking video but a good, detailed look at items in a lark's hoard are really enlightening.
I really, really enjoyed this one! I was so curious about your favorite Roman finds and am thrilled you did a video about them! ☆ There are so many interesting mudlarks on the Thames, each with their own perspective and character but, I have to say that I'm so glad you're one of the gang! You're a very important member of the lot and highly regarded by the rest! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all!
Thank you, Richard, for creating and sharing these Top 10 videos. I find Roman Britain fascinating, for some reason, and your finds give us a way in to understanding how they lived. I was especially taken with the signed mortarium piece with the stamped signature AND the potter's thumb print!
Loving the videos!! So enjoyable and I always learn so much. Thank you for making a lovely place to come during this difficult time. Take care, be safe and well and happy!
Thank you sharing this, Richard. You were lucky with find no 6. A glass bottle handle to survive and to look so well preserved is definitely a great find. No 7 is also interesting as I didn’t know gaming counter were also in ceramics. Looking forward to your next top 10.
Thank you for sharing your Roman Top 10! Idk that Romans made glassware. How did you spot such a delicate find on the Foreshore? Your #1, PPR-BR, history lesson painted a visual of tile usage & large scale. It’s great that you rescued it from a project that may have destroyed or buried it forever!
Ps. I need to catch up on your Top Tens! I always look forward to them. Over the past few weeks, our Strange World took me away from life. Glad to be back. Thanks again.🕊
Greetings, when you illustrate and offer sketches of the items with their possible uses , I can imagine the user, the job or meal preperations or a storage area where they might go to replenish contents. Fingerprints left in the clay by the pottery maker really make me think. Where are my " fingerprints" for someone someday to discover? Thank you.
Wow, such fascinating finds! I love the stamped tile and the hypocaust tile! I have always wondered about the iridescence on the glass finds - I think I saw a bit on the handle, and I have seen bottles coming up that Nicola and Simon have found that also look iridescent. Was that added to the glass items when they were manufactured, or is it from age or from being submerged in the Themes for so long?
@@richardhemery6916 Thanks for the response! That's good to know. When I first saw it, I thought it was a technique, and thought that the earlier glass-makers really took their product seriously! But as I saw more of it on otherwise unadorned, daily use, bottles I started to wonder.
Hi Richard, grew up in Farnham as a kid, now living in Melbourne Australia, so was frilled to watch you Alice Holt footage. Magic! So thanks for posting...love your videos. Cheers Dazza
Richard, the goddess Fortuna has smiled upon you - what an excellent collection ! I have almost the exact one handled bottle (acquired through Ebay) The research I've done on it suggests that it would have held scented oil to be used as perfume. Fascinating stuff. Many thanks.
Thannk you Richard 🌝amazing those all survived. How special to hold them and to have. Always since youth, fascinated with ancient history 🤩enjoy your knowledge. Did you get that phone call😆
All of your videos are so informative and enjoyable, it is such a treat to see one come up ! I have a question for you : I was recently pondering the fact that London remained deserted for 400 centuries or so after the Romans left, and how unusual and strange it sounds that Lundenwic was erected just nearby, next to what was a "dead city". As you mention the feeling of the people who saw London at the time and thought it had been made by giants, I was wondering if you knew of a book that would talk about that subject in particular ? I find this situation quite intriguing and fascinating. And thanks again for your amazing work here !
Thank you for your comments! There are a couple of free articles here on Saxon London. www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3A39B1E4FDC498AC4D01ABC79539DD0E/S0003598X00076845a.pdf/lundenwic-the-archaeological-evidence-for-middle-saxon-london.pdf or this short one - www.museumoflondon.org.uk/application/files/8015/1843/4079/PH_AngloSaxonsinLondon.pdf best wishes, Richard
That was a wonderful video and really interesting. I have loved pottery all of my adult life. I have so many different types of handmade ceramics I've collected over the years, and I love them all. It was only recently as I was researching my ancestors who on one side are Irish/English, to discover that my great grandfather (on my father's side) who was born in the mid 1800s was a potter haha. I have to say, that made me very happy. I don't know what type of potter he was, probably he worked for a factory during the industrial revolution is my guess. At any rate, I think our interests are often knitted into our genetics. I also found out that the area where I live now in Italy was at one time, hundreds of years ago, inhabited by Irish and Scottish settlers. I didn't know that before I moved here. No accidents in life. :-) God bless you Richard and stay well, you and your family.
Hi Richard, I love your videos! I do a lot of digging in my garden and have found some interesting bits and pieces. Today I found what I think is some slip ware. Would you be able to tell me a bit about it and date it for me if I sent you a photo? Thanks in anticipation. Jane
Quite impressive collection. And, (mainly) from mudlarking? What an enviable pastime. My shoreline in the San Francisco Bay offers mostly mussel shells and barnacles. On a lucky day I might find pieces of discarded 20th century diner plates.
Great finding REALLY enjoyed n learned. Thank you very much for the lovely information and knowledge about the findings. Stay Home stay Safe With Love from Guwahati Assam INDIA
A half century ago, I arrived a week early for a medical school summer elective in Oxford. We found an archaeological dig and volunteered there; they allowed us each to take home a few fragments of mortaria, as long as we promised never to throw them away in ordinary trash. I suppose if, centuries hence, someone finds one piece of Roman pottery here in upstate New York, they won’t imagine that it was brought here by Roman trade!
Wow that was so interesting. Are these finds registered at the museum? How wonderful to be able to hold a piece of ancient history in your hands. When you picked these up, did you know what they were straight away, or did you take them home and research them? I’d love to go with you some day. Thank you for sharing.
Some of my better finds are recorded online at the Portable Antiquities Scheme, most of them I knew straight away what they were, others needed research or asking other people their opinion.
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Here is the video we made at the Alice Holt kiln site, with the bus stop! th-cam.com/video/JP53fc7ihSY/w-d-xo.html
Love the fact you show where possible a complete item as well, puts it all in context.
Agreed! I love that addition.
One of my favorite declarations by Richard: Only in England will you find a bus shelter built over a Roman pottery dump.
I have to say I'm really enjoying these Top Tens Richard, many thanks for doing them. I do like a good Mudlarking video but a good, detailed look at items in a lark's hoard are really enlightening.
Thank you!
Please don’t stop making these to ten videos, even if it goes to top 10-20 and 20-30, etc..They are terrific.
Thanks Richard, for all the information you so willingly share. Cheers, Paige C.
Thank you Paige!
Your country is so rich in history and you are very knowledgeable of your finds, which makes the videos enjoyable. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for educating us! 🏛
Fascinating, thank you so much☮️🇨🇦
I really, really enjoyed this one! I was so curious about your favorite Roman finds and am thrilled you did a video about them! ☆ There are so many interesting mudlarks on the Thames, each with their own perspective and character but, I have to say that I'm so glad you're one of the gang! You're a very important member of the lot and highly regarded by the rest! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all!
Thank you!
The PR BR piece is truly a treasure! I am enjoying your top ten series, thank you so much!
Wow, they are all great but the PR BR, what an amazing thing to find one shard with that on it.
The best souvenirs are often found behind villas and along alleyways. Thank you very much for sharing your top 10.
I find your videos wonderfully educational. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Very interesting Richard Thank you
Thank you, Richard, for creating and sharing these Top 10 videos. I find Roman Britain fascinating, for some reason, and your finds give us a way in to understanding how they lived. I was especially taken with the signed mortarium piece with the stamped signature AND the potter's thumb print!
Loving the videos!! So enjoyable and I always learn so much. Thank you for making a lovely place to come during this difficult time. Take care, be safe and well and happy!
Superb Richard!.. You're knowledge and discoveries are truly fascinating and again many many thanks for all the help!...Steve
Thank you sharing this, Richard. You were lucky with find no 6. A glass bottle handle to survive and to look so well preserved is definitely a great find. No 7 is also interesting as I didn’t know gaming counter were also in ceramics. Looking forward to your next top 10.
This was so interesting! The Roman period fascinates me. Thank you for sharing Richard 😀
Your videos are interesting and educational! Thank you for sharing your amazing finds!
Your top tens are so good. I thank you , I love all your videos, thank you for the knowledge!
The historical detail is so interesting, I loved this Top Ten!
Fantastic video, love watching for the history, your videos are the best!
Absolutely fascinating how you know all these fragments of history!
Thank you for sharing another top ten. Always learning something 😃.
Fabulous things. Thank you for these videos--what treasures! So good to see what these look like complete after seeing just the small bits!
Thank you for sharing your Roman Top 10! Idk that Romans made glassware. How did you spot such a delicate find on the Foreshore? Your #1, PPR-BR, history lesson painted a visual of tile usage & large scale. It’s great that you rescued it from a project that may have destroyed or buried it forever!
Ps. I need to catch up on your Top Tens! I always look forward to them. Over the past few weeks, our Strange World took me away from life. Glad to be back. Thanks again.🕊
Greetings, when you illustrate and offer sketches of the items with their possible uses , I can imagine the user, the job or meal preperations or a storage area where they might go to replenish contents. Fingerprints left in the clay by the pottery maker really make me think. Where are my " fingerprints" for someone someday to discover? Thank you.
Very cool. Thanks again for sharing as well as informing. Take Care 😎keep up the great content
Very enjoyable...Love the Samian!
Wow, such fascinating finds! I love the stamped tile and the hypocaust tile!
I have always wondered about the iridescence on the glass finds - I think I saw a bit on the handle, and I have seen bottles coming up that Nicola and Simon have found that also look iridescent.
Was that added to the glass items when they were manufactured, or is it from age or from being submerged in the Themes for so long?
Yes, it is caused by the surface of the glass breaking down due to age and reacting with the environment in which they are buried.
@@richardhemery6916 Thanks for the response! That's good to know. When I first saw it, I thought it was a technique, and thought that the earlier glass-makers really took their product seriously! But as I saw more of it on otherwise unadorned, daily use, bottles I started to wonder.
Yay Roman my favourite and on the day I was supposed to arrive in London. Stupid virus😢 Thanks Richard you made my day.
Thank you so much. I love the Roman period too.
So fascinating. Thanks so much for these thrilling and educational Top 10s!
Hi Richard, grew up in Farnham as a kid, now living in Melbourne Australia, so was frilled to watch you Alice Holt footage. Magic! So thanks for posting...love your videos. Cheers Dazza
Love these videos...appreciate all the information you share.
Great Top 10 videos. Thanks so much..
Fascinating. Thank you.
Richard, the goddess Fortuna has smiled upon you - what an excellent collection ! I have almost the exact one handled bottle (acquired through Ebay) The research I've done on it suggests that it would have held scented oil to be used as perfume. Fascinating stuff. Many thanks.
Loved the stamped tile, definitely worthy of its number one spot!
Wow! Great pieces.
Thannk you Richard 🌝amazing those all survived. How special to hold them and to have. Always since youth, fascinated with ancient history 🤩enjoy your knowledge. Did you get that phone call😆
All of your videos are so informative and enjoyable, it is such a treat to see one come up ! I have a question for you : I was recently pondering the fact that London remained deserted for 400 centuries or so after the Romans left, and how unusual and strange it sounds that Lundenwic was erected just nearby, next to what was a "dead city". As you mention the feeling of the people who saw London at the time and thought it had been made by giants, I was wondering if you knew of a book that would talk about that subject in particular ? I find this situation quite intriguing and fascinating. And thanks again for your amazing work here !
Thank you for your comments! There are a couple of free articles here on Saxon London. www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/3A39B1E4FDC498AC4D01ABC79539DD0E/S0003598X00076845a.pdf/lundenwic-the-archaeological-evidence-for-middle-saxon-london.pdf or this short one - www.museumoflondon.org.uk/application/files/8015/1843/4079/PH_AngloSaxonsinLondon.pdf best wishes, Richard
@@richardhemery6916 Thank you very much, I'll have a look at them :)
Stunning finds and wonderful knowledge as always Richard. Cheers
I am in need of knowledge of roman britain, so I don't know how but I saw your video while research, and lived it! I loved your descriptions mate!
Thank you!
That was a wonderful video and really interesting. I have loved pottery all of my adult life. I have so many different types of handmade ceramics I've collected over the years, and I love them all. It was only recently as I was researching my ancestors who on one side are Irish/English, to discover that my great grandfather (on my father's side) who was born in the mid 1800s was a potter haha. I have to say, that made me very happy. I don't know what type of potter he was, probably he worked for a factory during the industrial revolution is my guess. At any rate, I think our interests are often knitted into our genetics. I also found out that the area where I live now in Italy was at one time, hundreds of years ago, inhabited by Irish and Scottish settlers. I didn't know that before I moved here. No accidents in life. :-) God bless you Richard and stay well, you and your family.
Very interesting!
Very much enjoyed this episode! Thanks for sharing. Are these among your oldest finds?
Yes, I haven't found anything older on the Thames. In the fields I do pick up Mesolithic flint tools which are 6 - 8,000 years old.
Hi Richard, I love your videos! I do a lot of digging in my garden and have found some interesting bits and pieces. Today I found what I think is some slip ware. Would you be able to tell me a bit about it and date it for me if I sent you a photo?
Thanks in anticipation.
Jane
Yes Jane, send me a photo or photos to richardhemery@tiscali.co.uk and the county where you live.
The Romans left a lot of traces in the countries where they have been.
The information is interesting.
Quite impressive collection. And, (mainly) from mudlarking? What an enviable pastime. My shoreline in the San Francisco Bay offers mostly mussel shells and barnacles. On a lucky day I might find pieces of discarded 20th century diner plates.
All from mudlarking in London.
Great finding REALLY enjoyed n learned.
Thank you very much for the lovely information and knowledge about the findings.
Stay Home stay Safe
With Love from Guwahati Assam INDIA
A half century ago, I arrived a week early for a medical school summer elective in Oxford. We found an archaeological dig and volunteered there; they allowed us each to take home a few fragments of mortaria, as long as we promised never to throw them away in ordinary trash.
I suppose if, centuries hence, someone finds one piece of Roman pottery here in upstate New York, they won’t imagine that it was brought here by Roman trade!
Thanks for another enjoyable video. I was wondering, do you display your finds or are they stored away?
Some I have displayed in a coffee table with a glass top, others on a shelf, but some I have to store away.
Richard, why are amphorae resistant to liquids? Most of the Roman pottery doesn't look like it would be. Thank you for the great education.
Wow that was so interesting. Are these finds registered at the museum? How wonderful to be able to hold a piece of ancient history in your hands. When you picked these up, did you know what they were straight away, or did you take them home and research them? I’d love to go with you some day. Thank you for sharing.
Some of my better finds are recorded online at the Portable Antiquities Scheme, most of them I knew straight away what they were, others needed research or asking other people their opinion.
I envy you.