I can see I will not get tired of watching your videos. I love the little bits of history you throw in there while strolling around town or on the Thames. Thanks for sharing.
Chill Bill, I love to watch your videos, but, I have a request. Please slow the camera down when you move it. I get dizzy from some of your quick moves, especially when you're panning around. So, Chill Bill, I'm asking you to chill, Bill. Thanks!
I'm willing to bet all you mud larkers over there have at least 100 of those old antique clay pipes each...and those things are simply amazing my friend! Great hunts as always ..I love to watch the mudlark videos best of all i believe...i really like them more than the old coins people find because its amazing to think of the rough old peoples who smoked out of those old pipes, plus all the other neat stuff yall find..HH and great videos ChillBill!!
I’d definitely be down there with you in the mud, but I would be (kind of in the back of my mind) concerned about toxicity of the sediments. I understand that the Thames was once so polluted that it was totally anoxic, as recently as 1957. It has rebounded wonderfully, but pollutants persist in the muck.
ace vidio ,,,,as usual,,,,and a great adventure you had ,,,,,,we found gold and silver this week in a ploughed field,,,,,was an ace day out ,,,i did a gold dance lol see my moves in our vid ,,,,good luck in your hunting we enjoy your adventures ,,,cheers
Not only that but London Burned several times in Black death times and WWII. Lots of London flowed to the river with fire hose and rains. Bless your hobby.
Great Excursion Bill! It's on my bucket list to go there mudlarking someday. My gr,gr,gr,gr. Grandparents left Allendale, Northumberland England and came to the United States in 1850
Would love to go on the Thames one day been promised but nothing came of it lol lovely vid enjoyed it best wishes :) you sound like my friend little john lol
+jackiesmiths Metaldetecting videos Hey Jackie, thanks. I always enjoy your videos. The way to do it is find a low tide using the PLA time tables. Check out the stairs that have access. Then off you go. Nothing really to it. You don't need a license to wander around and that is a lot of fun in itself. You don't need any special clothes, just stuff that doesn't mind a bit of mud. I go in trainers. With the tide table from the PLA which is online, any trip to London can be combined with a treasure hunt. :)
This is funny to me because it's a tradition on my mums side every time we go to the beach to look for glass and blue ware. And my grandmother lived just off the Thames. I wonder if she did this too and that's why.
I hate to think what standing in that spot 2-300 years ago would be like. Thugs used to throw their unconscious victims into the Thames, but they usually had time to revive and walk off it before they sank.
+IronheadOfScroteus standing there at low tide you can get a good idea of what it was like, but without the smell which I think would have been pretty strong.
Why are there so many old pipe stems & bowls there ? I know pipe smoking was much more fashionable in those days, but strange, I've never seen or heard of another place with so many in a given area.
+Texas Turner its a guess because no one can be sure, but: a) if you snapped the pipe stem too short and they are easy to break, it made for a hot smoke so they pitched the pipe. b) they were cheap so people treated them carelessly. c) The Thames had massive traffic so huge amounts of stuff fell in. d) Pipes are light and bright white so are easy to spot surface finds.
Nice video Bill what are the rules regarding detecting on the Thames foreshore, i notice you were only scraping the surface, not allowed to get deeper?
+Michael Leigh 90% of the time I go eyes only. The rules are all on the net. Such a target rich environment often covering more ground is the way to go.
Our swimming spot, close to an old tourist attraction fort used to yield pockets full of clay pipe remnants and musket balls. The soldiers of the 19th century used to fire their guns over the water. Old coins only rarely. Of course we were of an age where the only thing a penny was good for was a penny's worth of candy! We used to scan the water 5 feet deep or so and you could always get buttons, musket balls, clay pipes. Can't do it now, of course. You'd get arrested. Back in 1960 nobody cared much. I think my brother and his friends used to sell them to the fort...so much per pound of musket balls.
well guess I learned something new today........mudlarking........I always called it beachcombing cool..............thanxs for video mate.................
+Satellite Weavers there is a depth restriction but you can go a spade depth in all but the most restricted areas like the roman foreshore. People do that. Patches of artifacts are everywhere though and you can scrape the surface every few feet with a chance of finding stuff and as time is limited by the tide that's what I generally do.
Chill Bill Thank you! I found some Brittish pipes in Sweden in an old ship chanel on an island nereby here some years ago, one of them had a dragonhead on it, i guess it´s ment to be the whale from The Bible. (i also found one part in the earth when i was i kid) i think they all where imported from UK back in time. Simple all day pices that carrying lot of interesting history.
nice video I was wondering about mudlarking and who can do that one video I watched said you had to have a permit and there were certain that permits available for some people they could only pick surface objects others were allowed to dig along the shoreline is there any truth to that
5.23 the brick with the h in the centre , as children in belfast growing up we used to melt lead and pure into these bricks making lead bars , as if they where gold bars , the h would have been seen in the bar .
My deus xp would do well in that iron. Nice video . Dig the eroded spot and let stuff drop out ill bet you find some rather nice bits n bobs my friend.. Or bring a clam rake with you and do some raking on the shore.
+Chill Bill Ohhh right, like the reconstructed gallows at hence the name - Caxton Gibbet in Cambridgeshire, haha i just thought was the name of the place... Thanks
My wife and I want to come over to England from USA for our Anniversary and I think I would love to do this. I am also into metal detecting. Do you know how I would or who I would contact to get a license say for a week?
It was literally peoples job in the Victorian era to mudlark on the Thames for such things as jewelry from the sewers, so I've always been skeptical that there is that much left
+Chill Bill yes it does look like a coin between your fingers. I guy should put markers on the videos then go back the next day to recover what you miss. helps to have extra eyes helping you out
I know it's not up to you but I think it would be better and easier if you didn't just leave the trash and keep looking because if you get rid of it you can see what might be under it. Plus just knowing that the shore is cleaner would be nice to most people. But I'm not judging you to each their own
I would have definitely been reaching In those bars to slowly drag everything out if there's anything good then I bet it's caught up in there with all the stones
How amazing to live in a place with so much very old history, and how amazing is it that you can walk along a shore littered with old relics? Sad to say, but anywhere that close to an urban area in the US would be littered with modern trash.
I appreciate your enthusiasm and experience. Fascinating finds and observations along the way. Thank you, Bill.
I can see I will not get tired of watching your videos. I love the little bits of history you throw in there while strolling around town or on the Thames. Thanks for sharing.
Always good to see you. Thanks.
Wish we had the history You have in London. Thanks for sharing the adventure. Cheers.
Chill Bill, I love to watch your videos, but, I have a request. Please slow the camera down when you move it. I get dizzy from some of your quick moves, especially when you're panning around. So, Chill Bill, I'm asking you to chill, Bill. Thanks!
Trying to do this..... you may notice it in later video.
Bill/Thanks, I didn't like to say any thing but I was getting the same thing as Laurene.
edit I see I have paused at 3.57 for that reason.
I was just about to say the same thing , I do not think they realize that some one els is watching ?
Yes! Please! We're missing what you're showing us.
It makes me feel cross-eyed. Otherwise good. Just slow it down a bit please.
Love the history lessons included in your video
I'm willing to bet all you mud larkers over there have at least 100 of those old antique clay pipes each...and those things are simply amazing my friend! Great hunts as always ..I love to watch the mudlark videos best of all i believe...i really like them more than the old coins people find because its amazing to think of the rough old peoples who smoked out of those old pipes, plus all the other neat stuff yall find..HH and great videos ChillBill!!
I hope you see this Bill, I am saving up money to come to England and see you guys in action. I love all of you. Y'all are so much fun to watch.
Nice vid Chill Bill! Creepy to think of the drama there at execution dock. Happy Hunting!
I wish there was a place in the states where you could look for old pipe stems and bowls...awesome video Bill....
Fantastic video. Thoroughly enjoyed minute.
A good video is always a pleasure to watch with great pleasure!
I'm happy for you, my friend. Good luck to you
Great video enjoyed watching
Thanks so much for sharing your videos they are very interesting Bill.
I’d definitely be down there with you in the mud, but I would be (kind of in the back of my mind) concerned about toxicity of the sediments. I understand that the Thames was once so polluted that it was totally anoxic, as recently as 1957. It has rebounded wonderfully, but pollutants persist in the muck.
DIITTO, LAURENE.............MAKES ME DIZY TOOILL CHECK BACK AGAIN TO SEE IF HE HAS SLOWED DOWN
ace vidio ,,,,as usual,,,,and a great adventure you had ,,,,,,we found gold and silver this week in a ploughed field,,,,,was an ace day out ,,,i did a gold dance lol see my moves in our vid ,,,,good luck in your hunting we enjoy your adventures ,,,cheers
Any idea what that dark gray "stamped" brick might be at 5:16 ? It almost looks like there's a decorative hammer or axe head imprint on it...
Looks like a beat up fire brick to me, but you never know.
Great video
"If you had fallen out of fashion..."
*giggle*
Thanks for the ultra close-ups. Didn't mind we didn't find much. I felt like I was right there.
Nice day out Bill, you ought to get a little rake for hunting out there it will save your back!
I was in the very same spot last Saturday. Nice video
Its a great stretch to hunt.
Not only that but London Burned several times in Black death times and WWII. Lots of London flowed to the river with fire hose and rains. Bless your hobby.
Hello from the States. Great video. I hit subscribe.
+trreb1 thanks a lot.
Always looking for a something lol neat video with a few funny jokes mixed in. Thank you, subbed 👍🏼
Imagine all the antique coins you missed because they were under a superficial rock and you didn’t bring a metal detector
What a marvelous resource. You are all so lucky.
Fascinating....really amazed at all the detritus left from 2000 years of occupation. Mudlarking along the Thames is on my "bucket list"!
+Mac Lager took me 20 years to get back. Its worth the effort
What an amazing thing to be able to do! Thanks for the great videos!
Great Excursion Bill! It's on my bucket list to go there mudlarking someday. My gr,gr,gr,gr. Grandparents left Allendale, Northumberland England and came to the United States in 1850
Would love to go on the Thames one day been promised but nothing came of it lol lovely vid enjoyed it best wishes :) you sound like my friend little john lol
+jackiesmiths Metaldetecting videos Hey Jackie, thanks. I always enjoy your videos. The way to do it is find a low tide using the PLA time tables. Check out the stairs that have access. Then off you go. Nothing really to it. You don't need a license to wander around and that is a lot of fun in itself. You don't need any special clothes, just stuff that doesn't mind a bit of mud. I go in trainers. With the tide table from the PLA which is online, any trip to London can be combined with a treasure hunt. :)
are you not allowed to use something like a steel tined garden rake ?
Yes you can on that spot.
At least you found the pub!
London looks so wonderful. someday I will make my way there.
Captain Kidd was a good example of good man gone bad for greed, Great video thank you GL/HH
+WyoMD Live a good life thanks
Anytime
Really enjoyed that :) thx for sharing. Missing London!
Use a magnet in those nails and other ferrous items
Trouble is I cant keep them near any of my computing devices....
@@ChillBill1 imagine the finds utilizing magnet fishing. I do understand about the magnets.
Great vid, thanks for sharing
Dude...all due respect...
METAL DETECTOR!!!!
mine field
This is funny to me because it's a tradition on my mums side every time we go to the beach to look for glass and blue ware. And my grandmother lived just off the Thames. I wonder if she did this too and that's why.
That is so amazing, iron nails as far as the eyes can see.......Thanks Bill....cool video.
+MD Treasure Hunter Valley solid iron in many places.
I hate to think what standing in that spot 2-300 years ago would be like. Thugs used to throw their unconscious victims into the Thames, but they usually had time to revive and walk off it before they sank.
+IronheadOfScroteus standing there at low tide you can get a good idea of what it was like, but without the smell which I think would have been pretty strong.
Chill Bill just found you from Nicole's channel!♥♥
Hi, what times do the tides normally go out? And how long do they stay slack? Can't wait to get over in Oct and have a go! thank you as always!
different everyday. The PLC.co.uk have tide tables which will tell you. Google will get you there too.
PLA.co.uk
wats the price of scrap steel there per kilo?
Why are there so many old pipe stems & bowls there ? I know pipe smoking was much more fashionable in those days, but strange, I've never seen or heard of another place with so many in a given area.
+Texas Turner its a guess because no one can be sure, but:
a) if you snapped the pipe stem too short and they are easy to break, it made for a hot smoke so they pitched the pipe.
b) they were cheap so people treated them carelessly.
c) The Thames had massive traffic so huge amounts of stuff fell in.
d) Pipes are light and bright white so are easy to spot surface finds.
Nice video Bill what are the rules regarding detecting on the Thames foreshore,
i notice you were only scraping the surface, not allowed to get deeper?
+Michael Leigh 90% of the time I go eyes only. The rules are all on the net. Such a target rich environment often covering more ground is the way to go.
DO you think that the large groups of nails are likely from deteriorated docks and piers?
I think the nails also come from lots of wooden items from drift wood, wagons, barrels, ships... you name it.
Nice Video Clem, why are there so many nails any Idea?
+Peter Mundy the Thames was the freeway and trash pit of a thousand years of London history
How did you get LICENCE from the London Museum for Thames Mudlarking. I thought they only issue about 7 or 8 per year?
Get one at PLA.co.uk
Our swimming spot, close to an old tourist attraction fort used to yield pockets full of clay pipe remnants and musket balls. The soldiers of the 19th century used to fire their guns over the water. Old coins only rarely. Of course we were of an age where the only thing a penny was good for was a penny's worth of candy! We used to scan the water 5 feet deep or so and you could always get buttons, musket balls, clay pipes. Can't do it now, of course. You'd get arrested. Back in 1960 nobody cared much. I think my brother and his friends used to sell them to the fort...so much per pound of musket balls.
love the rounded rocks. wonder if any could be geods.
well guess I learned something new today........mudlarking........I always called it beachcombing cool..............thanxs for video mate.................
That is a fun video. wish I could have dug some and drank some too. :) Loved the alley bit.
+chris fry I will be doing more this year. Glad you liked it.
please could you slow down the camera when you move it. you found nails but could not see what you were looking at.
I think this is where a scene from eastern promises was shot
Does some restriction prevent you from turning soil over with a shovel? I would love to do this some time.
+Satellite Weavers there is a depth restriction but you can go a spade depth in all but the most restricted areas like the roman foreshore. People do that. Patches of artifacts are everywhere though and you can scrape the surface every few feet with a chance of finding stuff and as time is limited by the tide that's what I generally do.
Cool video!
+StefanrDetecting thanks
I hawe a tecincal question, in UK, can i keep things like old pipes, etc or is it controlled by law what i can pick up or not? (like where i live)
+Sheep_Ewe you have to report it on the Thames but you can pick up anything. No one want you to report an iron nail though. :)
Chill Bill
Thank you!
I found some Brittish pipes in Sweden in an old ship chanel on an island nereby here some years ago, one of them had a dragonhead on it, i guess it´s ment to be the whale from The Bible. (i also found one part in the earth when i was i kid) i think they all where imported from UK back in time.
Simple all day pices that carrying lot of interesting history.
Cool!
Excellent!
nice video I was wondering about mudlarking and who can do that one video I watched said you had to have a permit and there were certain that permits available for some people they could only pick surface objects others were allowed to dig along the shoreline is there any truth to that
check out pla.co.uk
Great video!
+cojo metal detecting thanks!
you missed that poor little ship at 5.15
enjoyed watching you wish I still could get out
y don't u use a small hand rake
at 6:39 to the bottom right of the bottle top is that the handle of a pistol?!
+Imogen Burnett could be... its hard to tell..
you have to go back and investigate!
I agree with the last comment, can you slow down between each find, thanks Bill
Enjoyed that thanks for sharing
+Diggin With Dash happy new year!
5.23 the brick with the h in the centre , as children in belfast growing up we used to melt lead and pure into these bricks making lead bars , as if they where gold bars , the h would have been seen in the bar .
Nice one!
What a wonderful idea, bet you can. Find all kinds of things
You need some kind of permit to mudlark in the UK don't you? how long from reporting your findings, to possibly keeping them is it?
Yes you do. I'd allow 9 months for return after recording.
Chill Bill I didn’t realize you have to turn it in.
My deus xp would do well in that iron.
Nice video .
Dig the eroded spot and let stuff drop out ill bet you find some rather nice bits n bobs my friend..
Or bring a clam rake with you and do some raking on the shore.
Hi Chill Bill, first, happy new year to you, second, what is a - jibbet?..if thats how to spell it..thanks. G
+G. Jones technically a Gibbet is an instrument of public execution, in this case a gallows.
+Chill Bill Ohhh right, like the reconstructed gallows at hence the name - Caxton Gibbet in Cambridgeshire, haha i just thought was the name of the place... Thanks
So... ... was the pub open?
Where do all the nails come from? Love the blue pottery.
Ships, the whole Thames was a dock for several hundred years in a time when everything was nailed together.
Aw you never took us in the pub with you. I was looking forward to that.
The evidence of so many generations before you. I've got to travel to the UK some day it very much interests me.
just be carefull of the chavs lol
What Douglas said :D
It ain’t what it used to be
Lovely stuff down there especially 10.30 - that plastic item!
Do you need a license to do that in England? I would love to do that when I come over to visit. Please let me know. Thank you! Great video.
+Steve Bonds i have one. I doubt 1% of the few people walking on the fireshore do..
My wife and I want to come over to England from USA for our Anniversary and I think I would love to do this. I am also into metal detecting. Do you know how I would or who I would contact to get a license say for a week?
port of London pla.co.uk I think...its #75 for 2-3 years but I think they do 1 day licenses too, but you'll have to check.
Thanks for the information Bill. Hope you find some good stuff.
I cringed at 10:14. Hypo needles all too common nowadays. Safe digging to you, sir. Great video.
It was literally peoples job in the Victorian era to mudlark on the Thames for such things as jewelry from the sewers, so I've always been skeptical that there is that much left
+HarvoOak hence the term muckraking. There wa a big demand for artifacts then.
There is lso a lot of deep erosion now. There is no new deposition now as the river is no longer London's rubbish dump and toilet.
I quite enjoyed that! Cheers!
Wow !! Lots of 1600 to 1800's rubbishes in Thames
Brilliant, feel free to come and see us x
at about 9:57 of the video it looks to be like a coin on end next to the yellow shaded rock?
+Detectaholic could be... it looks like there is one between my fingers at 9.46 too.. och!!! My eyes aren't what they were!
+Chill Bill yes it does look like a coin between your fingers. I guy should put markers on the videos then go back the next day to recover what you miss. helps to have extra eyes helping you out
Lots of washers out there though. :)
+Detectaholic That one isn't a coin, it's something with two discs and a metal stick connecting them. Not sure what it is, but it isn't a coin.
+Nhotmyereahl Nheyme Good eye.... I didnt see the second disk!
If you go down to the Thames there are bones everywhere but I'm pretty sure there mainly animal bones
Dont move your camera so fast, it's nauseating to the viewer, like motion sickness.
are there any fish in that river? I would imagine maybe mudskippers
Lots of fish, even Salmon. The Thames is unpolluted these days.
interesting
I know it's not up to you but I think it would be better and easier if you didn't just leave the trash and keep looking because if you get rid of it you can see what might be under it. Plus just knowing that the shore is cleaner would be nice to most people. But I'm not judging you to each their own
THAT'S GOING STRAIGHT IN MY BASKET
I would have definitely been reaching In those bars to slowly drag everything out if there's anything good then I bet it's caught up in there with all the stones
You say you’re looking for a somethink. It’s not somethink, it’s something!
Ahh judge Jeffreys he use to hang around here in Somerset also.😊
Your wife must love you bringing home broken pieces of blue ware.
I really want to go back to the UK I loved it so much
Awesome! I have gotta visit England, just wish I had money to do it with 😟
5:23 I spotted something round to the right of the red brick. Could be a marble or something. The object is black and perfectly round
+Kyle Vitkus tantalizing!
You missed a ring, at 5:35
10:27 was that a Roman broach?
I think it was a dagger guard.
Oh okay, it looked like a Roman broach...love your videos!!
I wouldn't know what to look for.
How amazing to live in a place with so much very old history, and how amazing is it that you can walk along a shore littered with old relics? Sad to say, but anywhere that close to an urban area in the US would be littered with modern trash.
+TheLeatherChannel riverside Manhatten is pretty clear... Will get down there one day too