STUNNING FIND by a Thames Litter picker and more!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Join Si as he flies solo on the Thames foreshore, well that is until a team of litter pickers show up and one of them finds a stunning find. Si doesn't do too bad either, see what happens on another adventure on the Thames Foreshore.
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It doesn’t matter what the condition of the finds are it’s the history and the stories attached to them because every find will have a story to tell and it’s an insight to the past great finds
olgajama : that's it, simple as, yet once you begin to imagine.... MAGIC!
olgajama well said!
I wonder if they would let you look through the pile of dirt and mud they’ve scooped out of the river. I would think you could find all kinds of awesome stuff because it’s dug out❤️
I can see why she got her job, incredible young lady, Si been watching for a few months now, my dads an Edgware lad RIP, watching you hunting makes me well happy, you’re history making is incredible that word again, keep going bud I hope as many do to meet you one day on the foreshore, I’m spotting stuff now when you are searching but you keep moving 😂😂😂
I think you should bring one brick home every time you mudlark and see what you have at the end of the summer. I know they're heavy but it might make for an interesting video later. Thanks for the post! 💙
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Give Hannah a big thank you for helping the Thames from one of your US followers
Very interesting array of finds. Great that you promoted the foreshore clean-up project.
Your vids are always a treat Si! Your knowledge of centuries past and historical objects are facinating. Im being entertained and educated at the same time. Cant wait for the next one! Xx from Australia.
What a great time!! Cool finds, love the whistle and the button with the harp! How precious were those mini Mudlarkers (the future finders and story tellers) and how sweet of you to give them some of your finds! You may be covered in mud, but you are a true gem! Til next time, take care my friend! xx ~Jen
I love your videos! The music , edits, information, attitude, wrap up and the fellow mudlarkers in your videos are all wonderful.
Danielle Izzarelli Thank you so much!
Si, in an antique store here in USA, I found a Codd bottle, apothecary jars, creamery crocks, ginger beer bottles, and inkwells from GB. Since I had been lusting after your finds on the Thames and the bottle dumps, it was a fortuitous find for me. Going tomorrow to check if the marble is still in the Codd bottle.
I find your videos fascinating. Lived around London my whole life and always wondered what treasures would be found in the Thames.
stephanie mulcahy Thanks!
Another great video of fun in the mud. Good to see the youngsters having a great time too. Also the lid was superb.
Chris Morgan Thanks Chris! He was a lucky picker!
Great video Si
Also good to see the litter pickers out on the Thames to help clean up rubbish. We need them in Australia too
Can't believe it's been almost a year ago I watched this video. I'm still learning how you find historical stories in the middle of the mud. Blessings
Jeriann Roberts Happy mudiversary, does that work?
@@Sifinds 🎉😄
Wow! Two Si Finds in one Sunday! Thanks Kindly Si Finds! This one slipped by me? Nice Si Finds indeed! Right On Brother! DaveyJO in Pa.
Thanks again for a most entertaining and educational time with you on the Thames. My husband and I watch you fairly regularly, along with some other mudlarkers like Nic and Chill Bill ( I think his name is Clem?) Anyhow, thank you for the bits of information on each piece you find. We encourage you to continue mucking in the mud! btw, your interview with the children was precious as was your generous gift to them. From across the pond in North Carolina :)
Kathy Flint -- Yes, Chill Bill's name is Clem and vice-versa. He and Aquachigger (Beau) are quite the pair when mudlarking or metal detecting together.
Very nice finds ..... it's nice to see them cleaning up too
I find mudlarking so fascinating. Fair play to you and the litter pickers as well. Wish I could go mudlarking but I wouldn't know where to start over here in Ireland. I was born in London and lived there until I was 2/3 id like to think if I was still living there id be mudlarking on the Thames foreshore with a permit obvs 😂💖💖Thanks Si love your videos 😘
That was damn brilliant, the kids were really cool, and dad to,, and all the lid pickers to, and woman in carge, great.video, and great to.be able to see whats going on in London, Thames,, hi from Denmark👍👍😊😊
Helle Dahl Kristensen Thank you, it’s an honest reflection of what I experience- good and bad and the people I meet! Thanks for watching!
@@Sifinds yep, thats why many like your videos I belive, cheers👍👍
Oh im not only Dane lovin on Mud... 👍 Helle wanna go lurking in the uk with me ? 😀🇩🇰
Helle Dahl Kristensen Oh im not only Dane lovin on Mud... 👍 Helle wanna go lurking in the uk with me ? 😀🇩🇰
Thank you so. So interesting and great to have the history of the objects. Happy days.
Lots of interesting things going on in this video! Nice to meet Eddie & the kids and find out about the foreshore cleanup. Interesting bit on the bricks. If I were there, I'd take an odd ball one like the one that said woodbox or a Tudor brick.
Love your channel Si! Thanks and hello from Canada!
Thank you Si-fi, I just loves your videos.
Lovely Skull ah thanks! Appreciate it 👍🏻
We've only just seen this video on lockdown Si! I'm Eddie and those are my kids Ethan and Saffiyah 👍👍
Ah cool! How you doing? What took you so long?
@@Sifinds I watched a video on your channel not long after we met you near Limehouse and it didn't show us so I thought you had not used the footage. Then last night we were watching this episode and Ethan was saying 'that's the bowl he gave us! That's the musket ball he gave us!' then my jaw dropped when we saw ourselves 😂 they keep saying we need to do more mud larking so I'm pretty sure we'll bump into you again👍👍
Ed Chow nice one mate. FYI Mudlarking is officially banned for the time being 😢
@@Sifinds yes I know. All. Of the fun stuff is now banned. But it makes your channel even more of an escape so along with many others we are enjoying your exploits👍 best wishes and see you on the Thames again sometime👍
So awesome. Kids love to do exciting things that have meaning. Look at all the adventures you’ll have and all that they will learn. All that without an iPad! Who would have thought!? 😆 And it won’t cost anything but the gas to get there. Have fun! Good luck cute little mudlarkers!!!!
Hello, Si, always love to see what you'll find! Your finds were small, but interesting, nonetheless. I love the musket balls and grapeshot! And the cufflink was awesome! Kudos to the team cleaning the foreshore. If everyone would do his part, a great difference would be made in a short amount of time! Thank you for doing all you can to keep the foreshore clean!
Well said! And thanks for the kind words!
Good luck to Eddie and his young Mudlarks !
I think that brass fastener might be a garter for a sock or stocking. Beautiful buttons...the Irish one is particularly beautiful.
Temper Hollow I agree. Thanks yes the button is lovely ☘️
You rock to want to be part of the litter pickers team! I wish everyone would pick up!
Saving history one find at a time. Good stuff.
Love these videos mudlarking there is on my bucket list so great to see them picking up litter i live on Long Island New York and after storms it makes me sick to see all the trash on the beaches
I bet NY beach would be a good place to mudlark. Lots of history there. Can you get down to it? Ive only been to the city.
@@mimimitch327 beach is just down the street ,there are alot of beaches on Long Island but the few I have walked are pretty clean, not even close to the mudlarking videos, but I am planning on getting a metal detector.
Those were really nice finds, Si! "Small objects" day, and they're all winners! And I love those bricks... if I were mudlarking across the pond (which I fully intend to do within a year), I would be frantic trying to find a way to get those bricks back to Oregon with me! Lovely that you took time to talk with the liter picker's supervisor and those sweet children. Bravo for giving them some finds for their buckets!
Wild West Gal Thanks! I took one brick, to use for a paving slab project. I have a nice collection now!
Indeed Simon you aren’t stupid! The chaps all standing with their bums in a neat row! 😁 Interesting mudlark ... thanks! The machines are pretty close!! Happy days indeed 🇿🇦 thanks from South Africa
Thanks Georgie - yes just wanted to keep myself to myself incase an 'elf and safety' guy booted me off, haha
I recognized your Irish Guards button! What a great find!
daver8521 Thanks dude - seen one with a clover border before?
Was about to suggest Irish Ranger or Royal Irish myself
@@Sifinds Small correction. It's Irish Shamrock around the border :-)
It looks the same as clover, but is a much smaller plant.
@@Sifinds: Not clover but Shamrock!
Very nice video good to see the volunteer picking up the plastics thanks for all your hard work Si I always look forward to seeing your videos.
That Victorian pressed brass fastener you found is I think is one half of a ladies suspender clip/fastener (the other half would look the same at the top but instead of the round button, it would have an elongated hole slightly narrower at the bottom to allow the button to pass thru the hole, and trap the top of the stocking before sliding down into the narrower section to hold the stocking in place.
cass276 Yes I think you’re right. Thanks!
I still wear stockings and that one looked a bit big for normal silk stockings but may have been the type used on girdles or ‘stays’ as my gran called them and were worn by older woman who wore heavy stockings, knitwear type!
Its amazing to me that the little fasteners and pins are still around after all this time . They are so tiny and they still haven't rusted away .
My husband was born in Woodville, near Swadlincote locally known as Wooden Box. His father worked as a labourer carrying pipes and goods to be fired - possibly for Knowles and Co. Love your videos Si. You find some really interesting things.
Hi Si, thank you for your time and effort and videos. Awesome and amazing. Diane from Southampton UK
I’d love to make a little decorative wall or quirky table out of the stamped bricks, but you’d have to bring more people and dedicate a day just to hauling them out!
Another bunch of great finds!
Well done. Thanks for the part about the litter getters and that you wear gloves. Safety is important.
Awesome vid once again 😎
suzib33 Thanks!
Love the bricks so much history attached, if I had my way I'd build a garden wall or possibly a brick oven for pizza with them, I wonder if the bricks could handle the heat after all this time, I would think yes, but who knows.
Beautiful harp button. Nice information about litter picking group.
Nice pottery find!
Those bricks could be nice for a flower bed in your garden .... heavy but nice ones.
What a dear to put him right side up!! I think it should be difficult to eat upside down! :)
Thank goodness for people in orange suits. That leach was scary, reminds me of the bobbit worm I've found a couple times on the beach only not as scary. AWESOME finds!
Thanks for uploading Happy days
MrG7swr happy days!
Nice good finds and it's nice to see the next generation of mudlarks
Peace love & jello
TomCat
Great hunt and finds thanks from Scotland 🤗🙏
Moira Black Thanks!
thank you for advocating saving the details of history, love the vids, good luck !
Thanks!!!
Enjoyed so much. What a lovely day.
Good time was had by all 😎
Good video !
Beautiful day today ty
Very nice discoveries and history on each. Thank you very much for sharing the information/interview concerning the construction projects. Good looking young lady environmentalists.
Jay Bales Thanks Jay!
I never know what and how you see things.Great video
More amazing finds! Always something interesting and historical.
I truly enjoy your videos, Si.
Nancy Holt Thanks Nancy! Appreciate that!
Great video SI 🙂🍻👍
Nice one brother 🙏
That litter picker had a right result as well 😎😎
Thanks Si!
You rock !
Another great vid mate! Keep em peeled 👀
Ray Pusey Thanks Ray!
The fastener is actually a "doin'- up- thing." : )
Cant believe you didnt blow the whistle..good videos sir.
Leech from blood letting during Tudor times!
Michaela Kinne 😂
@@Sifinds -- London leeches?? I thought they were found only in warm or tropical environments.
My favourite is the brass button..well done great video..
Can you imagine what is laying in the mud out in the middle of the river? I would try to find out if the new sewer project will involve the removal of river bed material and if so, where will the tailings be deposited. Also, those bricks would make a fantastic patio!
You are a really nice guy.
Enjoyable as always !!
Aglet is what those things on the end of strings and laces.
Thanks for sharing another great video...It was a button day mostly....GL and HH from your fan in Canada.🙏🏼🍀😃❤️👍🏼🇨🇦 Looking forward to your next adventure. Cheers🍻
McChrister Thanks! Yes got some good ones coming up!
Another excellent video, the next best thing to being there in person.
Tom bland Cheers dude! When u coming down for a Lark?
@@Sifinds As soon as I can! I'm keen to get down there and do another lark with you. It seems babies and hobbies don't go together well.
Very nice finds - new intro and techniques? Much appreciated :) Hope that crow found the leech! And, those litter-pickers have their work cut out - when you saw all the muck floating about behind you in those last few frames! Very good to know there are people out there trying to Keep Britain Tidier! Like the bricks, too, but not easy to haul home. Have a lovely week!
Thanks! I spoke to the kids about litter too!
Well done Si, good to see London is keeping up with the times for infrastructure. Maybe then can give some tips to the Toronto, Canada city council talking heads.
WRXS 😂 Thanks! It took us a while to upgrade it - 150 years!
I missed this yesterday. My boy has his cycling proficiency test this week so we've been pedaling about the neighbourhood like mad eejits all weekend!
Shelly Rourke Good Luck! He’ll be grand!
@@Sifinds Thanks Si. I'll tell him. :-)
Your whistle end looks how I thought I remembered my grandfather's cigar mouthpieces looking when I was little in the 1970s, but pics online look different than I remembered. I'm glad you were able to track it down.
Also, you totally made my skin crawl with that leech footage. I like most animals, including most insects, but leeches and ticks are exceptions. Back at uni, I actually got a leech in my bathing suit swimming in a river. *shudder*
Shanna Henk haha. I was tempted to see what happened if it were to feed off me. They used to do it in the olden days as they believed blood letting would rid one of disease
I really hope that the city hired archaeologists to overview that mud removal
Very interesting...as usual. !
Great Video! I like that Harp of Erin button, there weren't many Irish regiments in the British Army, so nice rare find! I've read underwear buttons in 3-hole and 5-hole patterns are 18th century and before and 2-hole and 4-hole are 19th century to now. Cotton thread is stronger than flax thread so the extra hole is unnecessary. That white fire brick you found,.... they lay fire brick in the boilers of ships too! Even in modern times! And two of those musket balls looked cast with the sprue still present, I think lead shrapnel balls were swaged by machine. I wonder how Noggin is holding up? Great video Si, keep 'em coming. 😊
Hey Si ,,,,,,you can take those bricks ,,, put them in the fire place they will suck up heat and give it back later on
after the fire is gone,,, you can use river rock like this if you make sure they are good an dried out . Á
Black dog down ...later on .cheers
BLACK DOG . Nice idea!
As always enjoyed watching thks for sharing 🤜🏻🤛🏻👍🤪🤪
El Campello Detectorist, Garrett AT max Thanks for watching! Si
Perhaps they could tell you where future construction will take place so a team of mudlarkers could go in and pick it over before construction begins.. Great finds and way to encourage the future larkers.
That little brass fastener is exactly like one I saw yesterday on a metal detecting video. Same decoration too . Now wish I could remember which one. Strange to find something like that a day apart. Great video as always.
Lise' Stanley what are the chances! Thanks
Fascinating finds!
Amy Hoffman Thanks Amy!
I feel quite queasy at the thought of what the new sewerage building works could be destroying- is there any way they could let a group of you examine whats coming out? I do LOVE all the different bricks, lucky to find so many with makers marks still viable, what sorts of reclaimed wonders you could make! Thank you 😁
Samantha Cotterill Hi. Apparently there is an archeological survey done on the area as the layers are dug. But I bet they miss quite a bit. They should let me on it too!
It always amazes me that no matter how fast I get on your site I am never less than 100 favs. Popular boy you are. I luv your videos. I wish they would transport all that muck for the sewers and dump it on the White House. Well I guess 10 Downing St is closer.!!!
dbn52 haha. Thanks
What I would give to go mud larking with sifinds... Another great video
relentless12345678 Thanks!
Your videos are always produced really well.
Rosemarie Dion Ah Thanks! Appreciate that. Si
Well done mate some really nice finds there. Happy hunting.
Peter Johnston Thanks mate!
We think the three hole pewter button is circa WW2 German and was used on field gear.
DrBrazell Interesting- do you have a link to a website? Thank you 👍🏻
@@Sifinds I don't have a specific webpage, but you can see an example of type of utility here www.mp44.nl/equipment/zelt_new.htm. However, since the button is not dished and seems to be pewter, I may be way off target here.
If you find the waste pile, bring your detector.....well done, thanks for that!
Also, do you have waste treatment plants?
Yeah somewhere. They won’t tell us though
When you had the broken whistle end in your hand I noticed what looked like a round rock with a line that looked like it went around the center. If that's what I think it could possibly be it might be one of those weird objects they claim to thousands if not millions of years old that people made . Idk if that was one of those things and I have no idea if those things really are what some people claim them to be but they are atleast a cool mystery and if it's not impossible to find that spot again it might be worth going back to check it out.
wraith Walker Do you mean a Mesolithic hand axe or similar? That would be amazing. Not sure if I could find that exact spot again though. Thanks for watching pal!
@@Sifinds lol that would be crazy awesome if it was but no it was one of those things that shows up like if you search unexplained ancient objects (conspiracy theory type of stuff). Supposedly there are these small round objects/rocks people claim have been worked or made by man but have been found in places that supposedly no person has ever been. Sometimes they find them (supposedly lol) in new mine shafts being dug and it would mean that the object would have had to been made thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years before people existed or were using tools. The next time I come across one of those videos I will try and post the title of it for you to see. I'm pretty sure if you search something like top ten unexplained ancient objects you can find a short video with them in it.
You might want to have a close look at that piece of printer's type around the 17:10 mark. I don't know how far these things move or where you are larking but, to my eye, it may not be completely impossible that it is a lowercase "d" or "p" or suchlike from the famous Doves Press that was lost when it was thrown off the Hammersmith Bridge into the river by Cobden-Sanderson in 1916-17. In 2013 a chap named Robert Green managed to fish about 150 pieces out from quite close to the bridge. Perhaps some moved farther? No idea. Anyway, it is a long shot, but amazing lost cultural treasure if it is, and worth investigating. :)
Maybe they're just fascinated by what you're doing.
If i win the US powerball this weekend i'm flying over to buy all the fill they're excavating.
George Delaney Good Luck mate!
Try to find where the sewer project excavation dirt is being taken to and with permission you could sort through it
nospartsman it goes to tilbury by barge and is being put in landfill and covering eroding old landfill sites. I have walked along tilbury and seen the huge volume of earth and rubble they moved you will never find anything. They took 20,000 tons from Bermondsey alone
That’s my first thought!
It’s being dump in the North Sea
I’d give my right arm to be allowed to search that! But then I couldn’t dig the signals 😂
I would imagine some of the stuff from places like Silvertown would glow in the dark? Maybe best to keep away!
I thought they'd stopped dumping outfall sewage into the Thames yonks back - 'all treated, fit for fish "analldat"? Sorry,. spoke before watching it all - tunnel, got ya!
Liked that lid, nice one boss!
The bricks would look great lining a garden