Thank you for your video, my life is very hectic as a charge nurse. And during my one break on shift I share your video w other nurses as we watch u walk down your English streams during our lunch. Your voice is so calming and your finds and your opinions are very interesting.
Your ornate copper thing at the end that's to good to melt down is a gas light fitting, the bit at the end is where you hang the mantle and the surround is for the glass. Probably Victorian. thanks for the videos
...very cool! I am an archaeologist and love your appreciation for the past! Your calming voice plays as i do my lithic analysis... enjoy your time on the creeks and rivers of the UK!
Those “pretend buttons” could it be the front of a light switch? You know the ones you pressed a button and not a switch relay. How funny I found potatoes in the water on my outing too today.
The long pipe with a heavy chain attached is a pipe cutting tool. You wrap the chain around a pipe, it attaches to a little notch, then squeeze the two lengths of handle together and it snaps the pipe clean in two. It also works great at breaking open geodes and rocks. Really, really, really love your videos!
Thank you, that's great to know about the geodes. Sad I didn't take it, but also sadly I don't have any geodes around here.... would have been good though for some of the fossil hunting I want to do on the North Yorkshire coast. I'm glad you get a lot of enjoyment out of my videos 🙂
The large 'toothpick' Tom... They're chaindogs used on heavy industrial pipe work, brilliant tool, wrap the chain around the pipe and the harder you pull the tighter they grip, you're welcome.
Thank you taking us along on your treasure hunts. I enjoy living vicariously through your videos. I live in Southern California, and sadly were I to walk down a stream here there would likely be only rocks and rubbage. You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place that is so full of history. I do hope you will share some of your art projects with us too.
Thanks Joanna. Sorry to hear that your local streams are rubbish strewn and lacking findable history. I am indeed lucky to live where I do, though I would travel away from it more if I could. Art projects are coming, I'm just hopelessly disorganized.
Beautiful place??? Their so called shallow rivers are full of plastic, metal, tires, etc...garbage dumps next to the water. A beautiful place???? NOT, maybe away from the water.
Bravo Tom. I wonder if the butcher knew a cook who moves up and down stream, using rubber spatulas as paddles? 😂🤣😂 Awesome copper and shards. What fun with the girlfriend. Pipe stems for all sorts of arms on the doll? Music is greatly appreciated. Have a great day. Blessings
Ah Jeriann, you do give me some good ideas. I hadn't thought of using the pipe stems for arms, I certainly don't find enough actual doll arms. I want that to be true, a little river chef using spatulas to power his/her way up and downstream. Have a nice day :)
Interesting walk and findings. As well as special ideas, funny and beautifully sounded sentences, such as the following puzzle: “I might be talking about as if I know what I’m talking about. I don’t. Do let me know what you know if you know more than I know about this little thing”. Pure music. Talking about music, I’ve loved the music too. Great video, Tom. Very keen in seeing your craftwork. Keep going ⭐️
" It's claim to be Unbreakable " That made me really laugh out loud . Gorgeous pieces of blue and white ..., and of course the " Dragon Skin " is a real treat .
I think the cylinder with the square hole are leg stands for wooden furniture. Back when mopping out stone or tiled floors was the norm,the lower wooden legs of furniture would discolour and eventually rot away, so stone or iron stands were made to lift them above mop level. My gran had some solid glass ones for her piano.
Thanks for the suggestion, I know what you mean and although I can't find an exact match with the search terms I can currently think of, I still think you could well be right. 🙂
Superbly relaxing and interesting. Glad you know something about so much of what you find and tell your viewers. It’s February, way below freezing, and pitch dark out as I watch this. Watching your videos is almost as good as being outside myself.
Thank you. I've learned a lot about my local area doing this hobby, it would be a shame to not share it... so I'm glad you find it a good value in the videos 🙂
Thanks Bella, it's a thing a few people have told me, and I've added it to my project list. I think I need some better microphones first to really do it well.
The Great Spatula Duel of 2018? It was the least likely kitchen implement I can imagine finding in a river, honestly. I have been enjoying catching up on your past content. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Love everything about your videos....the finds ( lovely little paste pot), the commentary, your dry humour... 😂 and the incidental music....many thanks 😁
Oh such beautiful pottery! And the pipe bowl and the stems, love them!! So nice that you brought your sweetheart along this time, it was such a lovely lark. I am hoping to get my books this weekend, keeping my fingers crossed! Until next time, take care! xx ~Jen
I hope the books arrive soon too, I always worry a bit about the possibilities for parcels to go astray somewhere along the way. I'm glad you enjoyed this video, the next one is being put together. Thanks Jen, take care. Tom
Nice to meet your girlfriend, her wellies any way! As always totally enjoyable and a peaceful start to my day with my cat on my desk and a cup of coffee.
Hi Tom, the big "toothpick" I believe was a block and tackle for hoisting something via the chain that ran through it. Once again a very enjoyable video/adventure. Thanks.
Thanks woofusdad and blal07, a google search of images seems to confirm it as probably a ratchet lever hoist. I was slightly close with what I thought it might be; a ratchet strap tightener... but yep, you guys are right. :)
john hollingsworth do you mean the cement/stone thing is a bung? I haven't been able to find a matching image on Google images, can you steer me in the right direction?
I too have found groups of potatoes!😂 Usually in the woods at the bottom of people’s gardens. Today I found 4 lettuces in the gutter down the road🤷🏻♀️
Hello Tom from USA. So happy that I've discovered you and your excellent videos. You are so knowledgeable about these items and the descriptions. You are also an excellent videographer as well. The camera is steady and that is so important to us viewers. I look for you and your posts because, as others have said, it is very relaxing and fun and informative. Also, quickly, thank you for cleaning up. I do the same at our beaches. People can be careless about our wonderful environment.
Thanks Margaret, I'm glad you enjoy and appreciate what I do. Sorry there's quite a lot of camera wobble in the last video, I was on slippy precarious ground. I thank you too for cleaning up your local beaches. Tom.
Another interesting hunt adventure wat a beautiful spot you have as your play ground. That big blue metal thing you asked to id looked like a brace of a bridge or pier that be my guess. Another great video thank you & many regards from Ireland 👍🇮🇪☘
Interesting id idea. I'll have a look up that river one day soonish to see if there's anything similar looking that it could have come from. Thanks Paul, and I'm glad you liked the video.
Even if was off say an old cast iron bridge wit braces its probably replaced wit a modern replacement. Or came lose during the bad flooding even that blue colour reminds me of so many cast iron bridges. Take care again look forward too nxt video.👍☘🇮🇪
What an amazing selection of pottery! I think you are right, there is a dump nearby :) I have had a virus since last weekend, so only have energy to watch TH-cam videos, so it was a lovely treat to join you on this mudlark. Thank you!
Aw, sorry you're ill Caroline, (I'm kinda assuming it's Caroline writing, as you mentioned you were ill with something in your Russia Olympics Haul video; sorry if I'm wrong Phil, I know you were heading into illness too). I hope you both feel better soon, and I'm glad you enjoyed this mudlark. Thanks!
08:22 You are correct about those blocks on the concrete. I learned about these from Caroline Johnson, of Let's Go with The Johnsons! I love the interesting things I learn from all these videos I've been watching. :D
I like the geometric patterned pieces most, and I'm planning on doing a mosaic with them when I've got enough...they're not all that common; most of the blue and white is bucolic Japanese garden scenes, I haven't got a plan yet what to do with them.
Thanks Jules, I do find quite a few gas related bits and they tend towards a narrower pipe than the one in this... are they later and this one earlier?
A beautiful ramble up the river, so nice to be able to go along with you. I only just found your channel and I'm already looking forward to more, and to finding out about that wonderful piece of bone!
Thanks Penelope, I'm glad you found my channel, and hope you continue to get a lot of enjoyment from my videos. Sad to say, I probably won't find out about the bone handle for about 6 months. The Portable Antiquities Scheme run a drop in meeting every three months in my local museum, and the last one was only a few weeks ago... they take the items, and often take 3 months to catalogue them before returning them (unless a museum wants to buy the item).
Love your sense of humor! I would have probably cleaned up the brook if patterned pottery shards. Especially blue and white or red and white. I quite like all the different patterns and designs. Some day I would like to make jewelry from some. The copper part that you said you would not melt or repurpose, could it be part of a gas lamp? Looks very steam punk. Love the dragon skin! The spatulas were funny! They brought to mind Dr Suess . ... silly slapping Sally slung her spatula soundly , scaring somber Simon skillfully... my favorite find from this video is the tiny paste jar! Looking forward to exploring more with you.
Thanks Terese. I am going to go back to that river, probably several times... so I certainly will pick up more stuff, and hopefully find the source where it's all coming from. I've been told the copper thing is part of an old Coffee machine.
I’m looking forward to seeing your crafted pieces. To see what sort of imagination you have. I saw the strange creatures you created on your Etsy page, so art from broken china, pipe stems, other river stuff etc, will be interesting!
That paste jar looks like one of my finds. Same pattern, slightly taller jar. After research, it was actually a meat stock jar. Brand & Co. Ltd. (1920's-30's)
Thanks Jemma, I'll hopefully have something worth showing by next video. My profile picture is a model I made using some wire I pulled out of the river, along with the string around his waist.
I really like your channel and have watched every episode. I love when you find cool bottles and their shapes and sizes. My favorite are the tiny ones as I collect miniatures since I was 5 years old. I'm 57 now. I also spent and entire summer digging a farm dump and covered in poison ivy. It was so worth it though and have 100s of cool bottles to show for it. I have some of the first embossed Coke A Cola bottles ever made. So keep posting please. I look so forward to your videos. I would love to see some more of your creations especially some figurines you made using a find and femo. See you on the next one and happy hunting. Oh the bottle bonanza 3 part was fabulous by the way. Take care from the USA in the state of Georgia.
I haven't encountered Poison Ivy yet, but that's quite some dedication to the bottle harvest, and first embossed Coke Bottle is an excellent find! I've been so busy making videos I haven't had much energy left for making things out of my finds, but I'm getting into the swing of things now, and aside from heading off on holiday today for a week, I should be able to do some craft work soon. Possibly even some craft work videos eventually. Thanks Elizabeth, for all your support and encouragement.
Paste jars are woefully plain these days. However, unlike some meat products, the contents seem to be free of the worst preservatives that cause polyps in the colon to turn cancerous. Thankyou for sharing your nice relaxing video. I wonder if those 'button pretenders' are for electrical insulation purposes. I do hope children were not sent down those small brick lined tunnels to remove detritus. Horrors in my mind!
I'm not a fan of any meat products really, I hope they haven't had such effects on you or anyone close to you. 😕 Paste jars can be quite charming though, and I'm glad to hear they're free of the worst additives. I think the button pretenders probably were to do with insulating electrical currents... and sadly, the horrors in your mind probably aren't as bad as the history of child labour abuses that happened there in long ago days.
@@tomburleigh9261 They told us at school about four year olds & sometimes younger having to sit in pitch black tunnels all day to open the doors they used to regulate air flow to let through the men pushing or pulling heavy trucks of coal. They were left in total darkness, not even a candle.
I enjoy your soft spoken commentary, and enjoy your creative eye. Not being from the UK, I am always curious about the "common paste jars" you seem to find. I have never seen anything like that in the US. What kind of paste? A food paste or a glue? Why are they so common? I'm living in a city now, but grew up in a very rural area with a lot of abandoned farm sites all round. As a child, my father would take us to poke and prod about the trash pits each farm had. Old bottles, and interesting things. But old to a Midwestern US state means....maybe 100 years old. You have access to amazing pieces in a simple river journey. I so look forward to your videos.
Hi, paste jars held a variety of food pastes, most were made of meat, some were made of fish, and it was usually spread on bread or put in sandwiches. They were a very cheap product, with lots of protein at a time when poverty was high and nutritional standards were pretty poor. They're still sold today, though much less popular and packaged in plastic jars. I'm glad you got to experience exploration and treasure hunting as a child, it is a fun activity... even if the finds didn't have the potential to be as old as what I sometimes find here. Any interesting Fossil, Civil war, or Indian sites in the Midwest? I watch one guy's youtube videos, and he looks for Gemstones and fossils.
@@tomburleigh9261 Hi back! So that is what pastes are; thank you so much for the clear explanation. Yes, I like to dig for fossils around here, and have my special spots along the Platte River. That is rather fun, and we get mostly shell fossils and coral bits. Civil War battles did not come to Northern Iowa or Eastern Nebraska, where I now reside, so no on that, although people from around here served, primarily for the North. Lots of the old sites around here were homesteaded by European immigrants, and one can tell in the fading old buildings the details of Czech trim, or a Germanic barn....some of the finds are things brought with.
@@mtherese13 I'm sorry it's taken so long to repond, the way TH-cam works isn't great for this; replies aren't shown in the new comments section, but they do send an email notification; to an email address I don't check as often as I should. Thank you for telling me so much, as a result I've read quite a bit about the Platte river, it's interesting and looks to be a wonderful river system; gorgeous in places, dangerous in others. I'm reading about the European settlers now.
@@tomburleigh9261 Thank you. The Platte River is a wide flat and treacherous river, not to be underestimated or for assumptions. from quicksand to deep holes, fast breaks, and other innocuous, slow-moving water. The mighty Missouri is quite close to home, but too dangerous for my tastes. I just came back from a holiday weekend, where it was sunshine and .....flooded fields everywhere. Kossuth County, Iowa...disaster area flooding, and so no good places to walk right now. Maybe by September...
Sorry to hear about the floods, a stressful and often devastating thing for residents to go through. The Platte river is sounding ever more interesting... I'd find it more so than the Missouri, or the Missisipi... maybe not quite as interesting as the Colorado but close. I seem to be developing an interest in rivers and their vagaries. I've just come back from a trip to a city, though which flows another treacherous river; it's killed 4 already this year. But of course, I've been scoping it out for likely spots to mudlark and I think there are some good possibilities.
Those white ceramic things - insulators did you say - have the makings of Christmas decorations, probably angels or fairies for the tree. Not your style, I suspect, but somebody could maybe use them. Best wishes. I live in the south of france in what was traditionally a very poor area and little was ever thrown out, only if damaged beyond repair. Nowadays, of course, we also are blighted by plastic.
Tom, great video as always, and one thing I can and will add, just to shed some light on something that does occur, however this may well not be the case with your bone 'handle'. Squirrels (and many other herbivores) will routinely chew on any bones they find in the wild, it's called osteophagy and they do it to keep their phosphorous and calcium levels in check. I have personally found bones in the woods that do resemble yours, insofar as they have the same shaved down ends and striations, as yours does. Yours does still look significantly old, but it might be that this process happened ages ago and the bone still found its way to the river and was preserved in that state. I am definitely not saying it is that, but it could well be a butchered bone that was chewed on by squirrels. They like to start at broken or chopped ends, too, but will also gnaw on the smooth surfaces.
Of course, with squirrels particularly, their incisors exhibit indeterminate growth and they do need to keep them in check if they are growing faster than their regular dietary habits can keep up with. I suspect they gnaw more for the minerals, however.
Excellent information, thank you so much! That does seem like a possibility, and I'll perhaps mention it to the archeologist at the Portable Antiquities Scheme meeting. I'm happy either way; very old bone handle or old squirrel chew toy; I enjoy finding interesting things and finding out interesting things about things.
My pleasure! Good to share some knowledge that I have gathered in the last few years, especially. My American life has been so much about skeletons, it's become a real passion of mine. Most mudlarkers/metal detectorists I watch end up finding bones of some kind, and I get pretty excited every time they do! Same here, I never tire of learning new things, really on any subject, but I sure do have my favourites.
🤣 The quackiest quack,I love that! Of course it is,that duck is speaking proper English quackery. We,of the former colonies,and the antipodean folk,we hear the dialects of quack,the bastardized uttering,mere mumbles in comparison to the proper intonation of the origional quackers. 😅
That strange looking thing at 23:01 could probably be a part of a millstone or the belt, which keeps it going. In the square hole once was a wooden pole as an ancient 'power unit'
Hello, I was looking at the old piece of bone, I Think It May be a horn, and the marks look like Beaver Teeth Marks, or the like... you may already know but I'm still catching up.
I love your videos and i am amazed at the pieces of china and pottery that you find! Do you ever sell any of the pieces that you find? The countrysides you visit are beautiful! e
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy them, and I agree... where I live certainly has some beautiful places. I haven't sold anything I've found yet, (given away a lot of the bottles though), but listing some things in my Etsy store is certainly on my long list of projects that I'm slowly getting around to.
There called Pipe Chains they're used to tighten and untighten threaded piping, there are different sizes those in the video look like 24s for use on 4" Pipes . When I was an Apprentice PIpe Fitter I used them (1969/72). Sorry for the delay in messaging just round your blogs
You say, there are mills in the area. Probably also textile ones? Just thought about these round round porcelaine thingies, spooles or so. I can remember, during my time as a textile worker on knitting machines some very similar thingies were used as weights. Try to weigh them: same sized ones have the same grammature. It works just like these little ones, used in car tyres, due to the fact, that certain needles in a row get loose, so they need a weight...?...!
Hi Tom! New subscriber! That piece of metal at 14:38 may have been to a railway sign or to switch tracks and such... just a thought. Cheers from Costa Rica
Hi Tom love your vids I’ve recently left the armed forces and used to go bottle digging years ago unfortunately there are no more digging sites where I live around London I would love to go digging with you sometime I would even pay for the experience
Thanks Elanna. Sad to say, I'm not really plugged into the bottle digging scene up here yet; I've stumbled upon a few dumps besides rivers, and been told of one or two more that are already played out. I'm trying to make connections and find some decent prospects, because I'd like to try and make a few bottle digging videos.
the lump you pulled out of the river, opera glasses - squashed
With the second spatula I imagined someone making a small boat and employing the spatulas as oars.
I love how relaxing your videos are.
Thanks!
Thank you for your video, my life is very hectic as a charge nurse. And during my one break on shift I share your video w other nurses as we watch u walk down your English streams during our lunch. Your voice is so calming and your finds and your opinions are very interesting.
Thanks Running Grass, what a lovely comment. It's nice to know I'm providing something that people who help others so very much enjoy.
Your ornate copper thing at the end that's to good to melt down is a gas light fitting, the bit at the end is where you hang the mantle and the surround is for the glass. Probably Victorian. thanks for the videos
...very cool! I am an archaeologist and love your appreciation for the past! Your calming voice plays as i do my lithic analysis... enjoy your time on the creeks and rivers of the UK!
Thanks Jigger2361... I'll hopefully film some of the places where there's petroglyphs someday soon. 🙂
Those “pretend buttons” could it be the front of a light switch? You know the ones you pressed a button and not a switch relay.
How funny I found potatoes in the water on my outing too today.
The long pipe with a heavy chain attached is a pipe cutting tool. You wrap the chain around a pipe, it attaches to a little notch, then squeeze the two lengths of handle together and it snaps the pipe clean in two. It also works great at breaking open geodes and rocks. Really, really, really love your videos!
Thank you, that's great to know about the geodes. Sad I didn't take it, but also sadly I don't have any geodes around here.... would have been good though for some of the fossil hunting I want to do on the North Yorkshire coast. I'm glad you get a lot of enjoyment out of my videos 🙂
The large 'toothpick' Tom... They're chaindogs used on heavy industrial pipe work, brilliant tool, wrap the chain around the pipe and the harder you pull the tighter they grip, you're welcome.
Thanks Ron
I like the array of pottery shards, quite a variety, and pretty.
Thank you taking us along on your treasure hunts. I enjoy living vicariously through your videos. I live in Southern California, and sadly were I to walk down a stream here there would likely be only rocks and rubbage. You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place that is so full of history. I do hope you will share some of your art projects with us too.
Thanks Joanna. Sorry to hear that your local streams are rubbish strewn and lacking findable history. I am indeed lucky to live where I do, though I would travel away from it more if I could. Art projects are coming, I'm just hopelessly disorganized.
Beautiful place??? Their so called shallow rivers are full of plastic, metal, tires, etc...garbage dumps next to the water. A beautiful place???? NOT, maybe away from the water.
Tom you are quintessentially English in a nice way. So interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing some of your creativity.
Thanks Sue, I'm working on a few creative ideas and hope to have something worth showing by the next video.
Bravo Tom. I wonder if the butcher knew a cook who moves up and down stream, using rubber spatulas as paddles? 😂🤣😂 Awesome copper and shards. What fun with the girlfriend. Pipe stems for all sorts of arms on the doll? Music is greatly appreciated. Have a great day. Blessings
Ah Jeriann, you do give me some good ideas. I hadn't thought of using the pipe stems for arms, I certainly don't find enough actual doll arms. I want that to be true, a little river chef using spatulas to power his/her way up and downstream. Have a nice day :)
Tom Burleigh Maybe you could use wires to make a boat for the odd chef.
Interesting walk and findings. As well as special ideas, funny and beautifully sounded sentences, such as the following puzzle: “I might be talking about as if I know what I’m talking about. I don’t. Do let me know what you know if you know more than I know about this little thing”. Pure music. Talking about music, I’ve loved the music too. Great video, Tom. Very keen in seeing your craftwork. Keep going ⭐️
Thanks Ella. As always, I look forward to anything you create too.
Oh Tom you're so funny! Love it!
Thank you.🙂
What a beautiful walk enjoy watching u pic up all th amazing video thank u Tom
Thanks 🙂
Very nice finds, very relaxing with the sounds of the river.
Your videos, sense of humour and outlook make them a joy to watch. Superb all round
Thank you!
Cool. 😀
Thanks :)
Thanks Tom!
The broken insulator looked like an angel
I can see it!
1st class never fail to put me in happy land thanks for sharing x
Thanks Carla, I'm glad you enjoyed it so much 🙂
11:12 That particular broken insulator already looks like an angel. Add a head, with halo, & you've got an instant Christmas decoration. :)
" It's claim to be Unbreakable " That made me really laugh out loud . Gorgeous pieces of blue and white ..., and of course the " Dragon Skin " is a real treat .
Found a bit more of the dragon skin in my next video; quite possibly from the very same creature. 🙂
Your voice is instant relaxation!
Thank you, I'm glad you think so 🙂
Wonderful walk and finds accompanied by your soothing, informative voice. Thank you for taking us with you.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yes, we do want to egg you on to make more of these!
Thanks Sally, I'm making more; got at least another 7 planned.
@@tomburleigh9261 Yaaaaaayyyyy!
I think the cylinder with the square hole are leg stands for wooden furniture. Back when mopping out stone or tiled floors was the norm,the lower wooden legs of furniture would discolour and eventually rot away, so stone or iron stands were made to lift them above mop level. My gran had some solid glass ones for her piano.
Thanks for the suggestion, I know what you mean and although I can't find an exact match with the search terms I can currently think of, I still think you could well be right. 🙂
I thought the plug with the square hole could have been used in a mill, yet I think your answer is correct. Thank you for a lovely walk.
Thanks, I think it still could be a mill thing, I found them both near mill ruins. Glad you enjoyed the walk.
Thanks for the paddle in your local stream. Really enjoyed your video as always. Keep them coming. You found some awesome things.
Thanks Alison
Superbly relaxing and interesting. Glad you know something about so much of what you find and tell your viewers. It’s February, way below freezing, and pitch dark out as I watch this. Watching your videos is almost as good as being outside myself.
Thank you. I've learned a lot about my local area doing this hobby, it would be a shame to not share it... so I'm glad you find it a good value in the videos 🙂
Your voice is so calming! You would be good at ASMR!!
Thanks Bella, it's a thing a few people have told me, and I've added it to my project list. I think I need some better microphones first to really do it well.
Bella, are you like me and enjoy the sound when he puts a little glass bottle on a pile of other glass? I’m weird I know. Still enjoy it. 🙂
Relaxing voice, relaxing music. relaxing video shots...but, I need to stay awake.
Aw, can't do stay awake videos yet... I'm too relaxed.
Hiya Tom as always a lovely relaxing stroll, thanks for taking us along 👍🇮🇪
Thanks Sid, glad you continue to enjoy :)
The Great Spatula Duel of 2018? It was the least likely kitchen implement I can imagine finding in a river, honestly. I have been enjoying catching up on your past content. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Love everything about your videos....the finds ( lovely little paste pot), the commentary, your dry humour... 😂 and the incidental music....many thanks 😁
Oh such beautiful pottery! And the pipe bowl and the stems, love them!! So nice that you brought your sweetheart along this time, it was such a lovely lark. I am hoping to get my books this weekend, keeping my fingers crossed! Until next time, take care! xx ~Jen
I hope the books arrive soon too, I always worry a bit about the possibilities for parcels to go astray somewhere along the way. I'm glad you enjoyed this video, the next one is being put together. Thanks Jen, take care. Tom
Oh, I've just found out I forgot to put a receipt in with the parcel, I hope that's OK!? I could send one seperately or via email if needed.
Oh, don't even worry about that, we are good! Just keep making your wonderful video's that I can tag along on and I'm happy!
Nice to meet your girlfriend, her wellies any way! As always totally enjoyable and a peaceful start to my day with my cat on my desk and a cup of coffee.
Another lovely ramble. Well done and thank you for the relaxing lark.
Thanks Malinda, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Your videos are great! You go to some peaceful places and its quite interesting. Keep up the videos!
Thanks Ninjahbutter 🙂
Thank you for the walk in your neck of the "woods", Tom. Thoroughly enjoyed the walk today. Great adventuring! From North Carolina, USA
Thanks smartoldlady, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
smartoldlady Hi, smartoldlady! I guess I could go by “mediocreoldlady”. 😃. I’m another fan of these mud larking videos from North Carolina.
Super interesting finds :)
Thanks 🙂 You get some excellent finds in your adventures too.
@@tomburleigh9261 Thanks mate :)
Lovely calm walk up the stream , love your finds tfs xx
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I like the industry areas you have gone into.
Thanks for all your videos Tom. I always learn something new. Your videos are very relaxing to watch.
Thanks Kathleen, I'm glad you get so much out of them.
Hi Tom, the big "toothpick" I believe was a block and tackle for hoisting something via the chain that ran through it. Once again a very enjoyable video/adventure. Thanks.
Agreed
I was calling it part of a "come along". I'm from Canada, so it could be just a Canadian term.
Thanks woofusdad and blal07, a google search of images seems to confirm it as probably a ratchet lever hoist. I was slightly close with what I thought it might be; a ratchet strap tightener... but yep, you guys are right. :)
The toothpick thing is a chain pipe wrench and the other heavy round thing is a bung from a big wooden cask beer barrel
john hollingsworth do you mean the cement/stone thing is a bung? I haven't been able to find a matching image on Google images, can you steer me in the right direction?
My favorite piece of the day was dragon skin 😉
Any time I find a bit of dragon is a good time; I hope to find a whole one one day, preferably live. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 I hope I'm the first to watch. !
I too have found groups of potatoes!😂 Usually in the woods at the bottom of people’s gardens. Today I found 4 lettuces in the gutter down the road🤷🏻♀️
Another great video!!
Thanks again Tom. What a great stream to find treasures. I look forward to your next Video. 👍🏼
Thanks Diane!
Hello Tom from USA. So happy that I've discovered you and your excellent videos. You are so knowledgeable about these items and the descriptions. You are also an excellent videographer as well. The camera is steady and that is so important to us viewers. I look for you and your posts because, as others have said, it is very relaxing and fun and informative. Also, quickly, thank you for cleaning up. I do the same at our beaches. People can be careless about our wonderful environment.
Thanks Margaret, I'm glad you enjoy and appreciate what I do. Sorry there's quite a lot of camera wobble in the last video, I was on slippy precarious ground. I thank you too for cleaning up your local beaches. Tom.
Wonderful video, Thank You.🇨🇦☮️
Thanks Lovely Skull
Love your videos and I'm catching up on all the ones I've missed. Love the music especially starting at 18:25 mins. Keep making videos please.
Thank you. I've got a big stack of videos filmed, to edit up... I'll be making videos for a while yet 🙂
The spool in the beginning could be a fabric measuring tape perhaps for a tailor or seamstress. 👍🕵️
Another interesting hunt adventure wat a beautiful spot you have as your play ground. That big blue metal thing you asked to id looked like a brace of a bridge or pier that be my guess. Another great video thank you & many regards from Ireland 👍🇮🇪☘
Interesting id idea. I'll have a look up that river one day soonish to see if there's anything similar looking that it could have come from. Thanks Paul, and I'm glad you liked the video.
Even if was off say an old cast iron bridge wit braces its probably replaced wit a modern replacement. Or came lose during the bad flooding even that blue colour reminds me of so many cast iron bridges. Take care again look forward too nxt video.👍☘🇮🇪
It was so nice to see your girlfriends Welleies.
Excellent finds on this trip. I did see quite a few pieces of river glass here and there! 👍✌️
Thanks Trina. 👍
What an amazing selection of pottery! I think you are right, there is a dump nearby :) I have had a virus since last weekend, so only have energy to watch TH-cam videos, so it was a lovely treat to join you on this mudlark. Thank you!
Aw, sorry you're ill Caroline, (I'm kinda assuming it's Caroline writing, as you mentioned you were ill with something in your Russia Olympics Haul video; sorry if I'm wrong Phil, I know you were heading into illness too). I hope you both feel better soon, and I'm glad you enjoyed this mudlark. Thanks!
Turning the little headless figure into Cthulu with the tentacles...very Lovecraftian lol.
Hopefully with the charm and fun of his best creations; but lacking any of his xenophobia and racism. 🙂
08:22 You are correct about those blocks on the concrete. I learned about these from Caroline Johnson, of Let's Go with The Johnsons! I love the interesting things I learn from all these videos I've been watching. :D
definitely a piece of Dragon skin.
Definitely 🙂
Creatively. I too would love to see what you do with the blue pottery. Have a great time with whatever direction you pick. 🐊Florida🌴
I like the geometric patterned pieces most, and I'm planning on doing a mosaic with them when I've got enough...they're not all that common; most of the blue and white is bucolic Japanese garden scenes, I haven't got a plan yet what to do with them.
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
Greetings from UK 🙂
Lol love watching your channel! The pottery is beautiful!
Thanks, must get back to this spot soon and go further up stream to find the spot it's all coming from 🙂
The copper at the end of this video looks like the fittings from an early gas lamp. Love your voice so soothing.
Thanks Jules, I do find quite a few gas related bits and they tend towards a narrower pipe than the one in this... are they later and this one earlier?
Toothpick looking thing looks like part of a chain boom/hoist maybe
Thanks 🙂
A beautiful ramble up the river, so nice to be able to go along with you. I only just found your channel and I'm already looking forward to more, and to finding out about that wonderful piece of bone!
Thanks Penelope, I'm glad you found my channel, and hope you continue to get a lot of enjoyment from my videos. Sad to say, I probably won't find out about the bone handle for about 6 months. The Portable Antiquities Scheme run a drop in meeting every three months in my local museum, and the last one was only a few weeks ago... they take the items, and often take 3 months to catalogue them before returning them (unless a museum wants to buy the item).
Love your music choices!
Thank you 🙂
What a beautiful place, and what amazing treasures you find. How lucky you are!🇨🇦
Thanks!
Love your sense of humor! I would have probably cleaned up the brook if patterned pottery shards. Especially blue and white or red and white. I quite like all the different patterns and designs. Some day I would like to make jewelry from some.
The copper part that you said you would not melt or repurpose, could it be part of a gas lamp? Looks very steam punk.
Love the dragon skin!
The spatulas were funny! They brought to mind Dr Suess . ... silly slapping Sally slung her spatula soundly , scaring somber Simon skillfully...
my favorite find from this video is the tiny paste jar!
Looking forward to exploring more with you.
Thanks Terese. I am going to go back to that river, probably several times... so I certainly will pick up more stuff, and hopefully find the source where it's all coming from. I've been told the copper thing is part of an old Coffee machine.
Keep calm and enjoy the voice... ♥️👍🏼
Aw, I do like that it can help people to relax 🙂.
Thanks
I’m looking forward to seeing your crafted pieces. To see what sort of imagination you have. I saw the strange creatures you created on your Etsy page, so art from broken china, pipe stems, other river stuff etc, will be interesting!
Hopefully! I haven't made much progress on them so far I'm afraid, too many projects on the go and not enough energy.
That paste jar looks like one of my finds. Same pattern, slightly taller jar. After research, it was actually a meat stock jar. Brand & Co. Ltd. (1920's-30's)
I thought about what you could do with the pipe stems. Take the small ones with beads you find and make a necklace.
And that my friends was the “quack like quacking” of Tom Burleigh. You quack me up Tom, you quack me up.
I certainly feel a kinship with quacking creatures 🙂
Those white round disks are parts of insulators for electric fence.
Ah, thank you! That's great info. 🙂
Great video. Would love to see some of the artwork you create from your finds
Thanks Jemma, I'll hopefully have something worth showing by next video. My profile picture is a model I made using some wire I pulled out of the river, along with the string around his waist.
Enjoyed watching. ATB
Thanks 925inder
I really like your channel and have watched every episode. I love when you find cool bottles and their shapes and sizes. My favorite are the tiny ones as I collect miniatures since I was 5 years old. I'm 57 now. I also spent and entire summer digging a farm dump and covered in poison ivy. It was so worth it though and have 100s of cool bottles to show for it. I have some of the first embossed Coke A Cola bottles ever made. So keep posting please. I look so forward to your videos. I would love to see some more of your creations especially some figurines you made using a find and femo. See you on the next one and happy hunting. Oh the bottle bonanza 3 part was fabulous by the way. Take care from the USA in the state of Georgia.
I haven't encountered Poison Ivy yet, but that's quite some dedication to the bottle harvest, and first embossed Coke Bottle is an excellent find! I've been so busy making videos I haven't had much energy left for making things out of my finds, but I'm getting into the swing of things now, and aside from heading off on holiday today for a week, I should be able to do some craft work soon. Possibly even some craft work videos eventually. Thanks Elizabeth, for all your support and encouragement.
Paste jars are woefully plain these days. However, unlike some meat products, the contents seem to be free of the worst preservatives that cause polyps in the colon to turn cancerous. Thankyou for sharing your nice relaxing video. I wonder if those 'button pretenders' are for electrical insulation purposes. I do hope children were not sent down those small brick lined tunnels to remove detritus. Horrors in my mind!
Wonder if some trainee cooks threw their spatulas into the river on completion of their course?
I'm not a fan of any meat products really, I hope they haven't had such effects on you or anyone close to you. 😕 Paste jars can be quite charming though, and I'm glad to hear they're free of the worst additives. I think the button pretenders probably were to do with insulating electrical currents... and sadly, the horrors in your mind probably aren't as bad as the history of child labour abuses that happened there in long ago days.
@@tomburleigh9261 They told us at school about four year olds & sometimes younger having to sit in pitch black tunnels all day to open the doors they used to regulate air flow to let through the men pushing or pulling heavy trucks of coal. They were left in total darkness, not even a candle.
I enjoy your soft spoken commentary, and enjoy your creative eye. Not being from the UK, I am always curious about the "common paste jars" you seem to find. I have never seen anything like that in the US. What kind of paste? A food paste or a glue? Why are they so common? I'm living in a city now, but grew up in a very rural area with a lot of abandoned farm sites all round. As a child, my father would take us to poke and prod about the trash pits each farm had. Old bottles, and interesting things. But old to a Midwestern US state means....maybe 100 years old. You have access to amazing pieces in a simple river journey. I so look forward to your videos.
Hi, paste jars held a variety of food pastes, most were made of meat, some were made of fish, and it was usually spread on bread or put in sandwiches. They were a very cheap product, with lots of protein at a time when poverty was high and nutritional standards were pretty poor. They're still sold today, though much less popular and packaged in plastic jars. I'm glad you got to experience exploration and treasure hunting as a child, it is a fun activity... even if the finds didn't have the potential to be as old as what I sometimes find here. Any interesting Fossil, Civil war, or Indian sites in the Midwest? I watch one guy's youtube videos, and he looks for Gemstones and fossils.
@@tomburleigh9261 Hi back! So that is what pastes are; thank you so much for the clear explanation. Yes, I like to dig for fossils around here, and have my special spots along the Platte River. That is rather fun, and we get mostly shell fossils and coral bits. Civil War battles did not come to Northern Iowa or Eastern Nebraska, where I now reside, so no on that, although people from around here served, primarily for the North. Lots of the old sites around here were homesteaded by European immigrants, and one can tell in the fading old buildings the details of Czech trim, or a Germanic barn....some of the finds are things brought with.
@@mtherese13 I'm sorry it's taken so long to repond, the way TH-cam works isn't great for this; replies aren't shown in the new comments section, but they do send an email notification; to an email address I don't check as often as I should. Thank you for telling me so much, as a result I've read quite a bit about the Platte river, it's interesting and looks to be a wonderful river system; gorgeous in places, dangerous in others. I'm reading about the European settlers now.
@@tomburleigh9261 Thank you. The Platte River is a wide flat and treacherous river, not to be underestimated or for assumptions. from quicksand to deep holes, fast breaks, and other innocuous, slow-moving water. The mighty Missouri is quite close to home, but too dangerous for my tastes. I just came back from a holiday weekend, where it was sunshine and .....flooded fields everywhere. Kossuth County, Iowa...disaster area flooding, and so no good places to walk right now. Maybe by September...
Sorry to hear about the floods, a stressful and often devastating thing for residents to go through. The Platte river is sounding ever more interesting... I'd find it more so than the Missouri, or the Missisipi... maybe not quite as interesting as the Colorado but close. I seem to be developing an interest in rivers and their vagaries. I've just come back from a trip to a city, though which flows another treacherous river; it's killed 4 already this year. But of course, I've been scoping it out for likely spots to mudlark and I think there are some good possibilities.
Those white ceramic things - insulators did you say - have the makings of Christmas decorations, probably angels or fairies for the tree. Not your style, I suspect, but somebody could maybe use them. Best wishes. I live in the south of france in what was traditionally a very poor area and little was ever thrown out, only if damaged beyond repair. Nowadays, of course, we also are blighted by plastic.
first rate as always Tom. You're the best.
Aw, thanks Kate.
PS. I saw some of your paintings in Nicola White's latest video; you're a wonderfully talented artist.
The 'giant toothpick' - what you named it - could be a moving part of a steam engine or steam roller...? A cod rod maybe?
Please show us the upcycle process of the bowl tom!
Tom, great video as always, and one thing I can and will add, just to shed some light on something that does occur, however this may well not be the case with your bone 'handle'. Squirrels (and many other herbivores) will routinely chew on any bones they find in the wild, it's called osteophagy and they do it to keep their phosphorous and calcium levels in check. I have personally found bones in the woods that do resemble yours, insofar as they have the same shaved down ends and striations, as yours does. Yours does still look significantly old, but it might be that this process happened ages ago and the bone still found its way to the river and was preserved in that state. I am definitely not saying it is that, but it could well be a butchered bone that was chewed on by squirrels. They like to start at broken or chopped ends, too, but will also gnaw on the smooth surfaces.
Of course, with squirrels particularly, their incisors exhibit indeterminate growth and they do need to keep them in check if they are growing faster than their regular dietary habits can keep up with. I suspect they gnaw more for the minerals, however.
Excellent information, thank you so much! That does seem like a possibility, and I'll perhaps mention it to the archeologist at the Portable Antiquities Scheme meeting. I'm happy either way; very old bone handle or old squirrel chew toy; I enjoy finding interesting things and finding out interesting things about things.
My pleasure! Good to share some knowledge that I have gathered in the last few years, especially. My American life has been so much about skeletons, it's become a real passion of mine. Most mudlarkers/metal detectorists I watch end up finding bones of some kind, and I get pretty excited every time they do!
Same here, I never tire of learning new things, really on any subject, but I sure do have my favourites.
🤣 The quackiest quack,I love that!
Of course it is,that duck is speaking proper English quackery.
We,of the former colonies,and the antipodean folk,we hear the dialects of quack,the bastardized uttering,mere mumbles in comparison to the proper intonation of the origional quackers.
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That strange looking thing at 23:01 could probably be a part of a millstone or the belt, which keeps it going. In the square hole once was a wooden pole as an ancient 'power unit'
Thank you for sharing your finds with us. I just subscribed.
Thanks!
Mudflood is good topic
Hello, I was looking at the old piece of bone, I Think It May be a horn, and the marks look like Beaver Teeth Marks, or the like... you may already know but I'm still catching up.
I love your videos and i am amazed at the pieces of china and pottery that you find! Do you ever sell any of the pieces that you find? The countrysides you visit are beautiful!
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Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy them, and I agree... where I live certainly has some beautiful places. I haven't sold anything I've found yet, (given away a lot of the bottles though), but listing some things in my Etsy store is certainly on my long list of projects that I'm slowly getting around to.
Hello Tom and friend, I think the piece of steel with chain is a pipe holder come wrench. Cheers mate 🇦🇺.......
Thanks Roger, that's a pretty good idea. Cheers.
There called Pipe Chains they're used to tighten and untighten threaded piping, there are different sizes those in the video look like 24s for use on 4" Pipes . When I was an Apprentice PIpe Fitter I used them (1969/72). Sorry for the delay in messaging just round your blogs
You say, there are mills in the area. Probably also textile ones? Just thought about these round round porcelaine thingies, spooles or so. I can remember, during my time as a textile worker on knitting machines some very similar thingies were used as weights. Try to weigh them: same sized ones have the same grammature. It works just like these little ones, used in car tyres, due to the fact, that certain needles in a row get loose, so they need a weight...?...!
I wonder if those buttony things are counters from an Abacus?
Could possibly be, yes... though I'd usually expect the edge to be bevelled on both sides for abacus counters, and these are only bevelled on one.
Hi Tom! New subscriber! That piece of metal at 14:38 may have been to a railway sign or to switch tracks and such... just a thought. Cheers from Costa Rica
Thanks Andie, there's a few different ideas on that; this one is one of the more likely. Cheers from UK.
Spool thingy is windowpulley part.
Thank you 🙂
Hi Tom love your vids
I’ve recently left the armed forces and used to go bottle digging years ago unfortunately there are no more digging sites where I live around London I would love to go digging with you sometime I would even pay for the experience
Thanks Elanna. Sad to say, I'm not really plugged into the bottle digging scene up here yet; I've stumbled upon a few dumps besides rivers, and been told of one or two more that are already played out. I'm trying to make connections and find some decent prospects, because I'd like to try and make a few bottle digging videos.
West Drayton , Slough arm canal junction is where rubbish was dumped from London, there is a big bottle digging site there behind the marina.
I can't find that Record tool online , but I'm guessing its a wire or chain winch ? We need a shot of the part number.
Someone's told me it's a pipe bending tool; provided a link with a picture too, so it looks likely to be that.