I just ran across this video and wanted to say thank you. My grandfather was born in Gravesend in 1900. He immigrated to Canada in 1909 and eventually ended up in Michigan. It was interesting to see the area. Hoping you have "Luck in the muck".
The “Samurai” statue is a Chinese souvenir of Xian’s Terra Cotta Warriors discovery. First Emperor Chin of China who was buried with thousands of warrior statues to go into the afterlife. Cool finds! CP
At 5:58... This is a statue of Shiva holding baby Ganesha on his lap with Ganeha's mother Parvati. The statues head is broken off. Ganesha is one of several water gods Hindus worship. I croped and enlarged photo of statue on rock and then search on web for similar statue. Near end of video I see the Chinese statues you're talking about. I thought you were talking about 5:58...
@@Sifinds I have a question 🙋🏻♀️ you have a license to dig (I think) up to 2m. Q: what’s the deepest hole you have dug & what was the item? I’m loving your videos xx thanks
@@emilyjayne77 Yes I do, but only dug twice. Nothing much apart from a rose farthing and a few pipes. Not worth it really. It’s mega hard work for little reward. But saying that I may try it again one day. Lol
@@Sifinds thank you for your reply 😊 I think you should do a Live Q&A sometime 🤔 I bet there’s loads of folk with questions for you. Mud larking is so interesting! I love all of the history, right there at your fingertips. Wonderful! Show us your favourite treasures you own 😊 I for one would really enjoy seeing your favourite things. 😃
For someone who grew up in the middle of the USA in a very small, mostly white, Christian community, I have never seen those little pots and statues! I have been to the Gulf of Mexico, a couple of places in Mexico, and the Atlantic several times. But never seen as much variety of things! So cool to watch you find it all! Thank you for sharing. I would be out there every day, hunting!
Wow ! Never seen anything like this before,a bit like beach combing. I'd love to have a go at this. Thanks for posting such an enjoyable video. Liked and subbed.
Hi Si, new sub here. Just been watching through some of your videos, nice work!! So interesting to find you have been to Gravesend - close to where I live. Looking forward to watching more, thank you.
I don’t mudlark but I do magnet fish, I’m surprised how many tyres and trolleys are there. If I’m ever down that way I will go there and just try to clean it up
Hello there from over the waters 👋 I like to mudlark over my side of the thames We get a lot of clay pipes and pottery over here. I think a lot of it’s from the old sailors from the docks years ago. There she’s loads of pottery around coalhouse fort area. Haven’t found any areas where there’s offerings found though.
You are on an ancient temple/castle which went through a mega disaster, most likely a huge volcano eruption. There's chambers beneath which links to neighboring mountains. Coins and relics embedded within volcanic glass/limestones or clay. Look for big tree, the chambers should be right next to it. And don't forget to remove the ''main boulders''. Cheers....
Thank you for the interesting video.Looks like someone left an offering of rice and yellow peas. Nothing to feed in there. Lots of cool stuff though. Cheers!
From: SUSANN. Hello Si. Could you explain to us foreigners abroad the value relationship of some coins you pick up? You do a fantastic job identifying monarchy reigns fo us, But what is the relationship of a ha” penny to a shilling? Or a 2-P coin to a 10-P?
If I were you guys I'd buy (or rent) a metal detector and go back there. I mean, with all the stuff you found, just imagine what you missed!! Those little knifes are very interesting also, very cool!!
Throwing all that trash into the river is disrespectful, not only to the country but the land and the animals that have to swim through all their crap Good on you for cleaning some of it up. Can only imagine the amount of garbage they’d haul out of there if they organized a river cleanup
I think it's terrible that people would do that. I understand some of it has been there a long time. The people that has committed misdeamors should have to perform community service and clean this mess up. In the USA some states have mandatory community service for certain offenses. I couldn't believe all the trash when I first started watching these.
Si , Steve, if you avoid the moving of the camera against the floor, that would made a nicer to see video. Just focusing or aproaching the find. Its nice to see your findings. Good luck guys !
Cathrine Parsons I believe someone chose that spot to do an offering to a Hindu god. The coins and rice were part of the offering. I actually felt kind of weird and creepy about them taking them-I think I would have left them.
IT is NOT like any river. It seems maybe like English rivers (since there is another mudlarker who dins a ton of stuff in rural streams suggesting dumping stuff in water is an English pastime.)
It's a river that's seen continual human habitation for over five thousand years. For at least 2,000 of those years it has been not just populated, but densely populated. Hard not to have trash in a river through a populated area, let alone in an area that has seen this much activity for so many years. Makes me jealous. If I go to the big river I live nearby here in the states, I'm only looking at just over 200 years of activity, and only 100 or so of dense population.
i wonder if that rice and corn was dumped on purpose, at a beach i used to detect a nasty old swine spread about 2000 thumb tacks around as he didn't detectorists on "his beach", even though it belongs to the queen, he got 200 hours and a ban from the beach for that stunt.
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Two grown men on their hands and knees, scraping in the gravel for pennies. That's entertainment!!!!! Thanks guys! Happy hunting and have fun!
Another great day! Thanks for showing us your passion.
I just ran across this video and wanted to say thank you. My grandfather was born in Gravesend in 1900. He immigrated to Canada in 1909 and eventually ended up in Michigan. It was interesting to see the area. Hoping you have "Luck in the muck".
With this amount of offerings you and steve are mudlarking God's.
This guy with you looks like the guy you go on the Airboat with. Another great video!
The “Samurai” statue is a Chinese souvenir of Xian’s Terra Cotta Warriors discovery. First Emperor Chin of China who was buried with thousands of warrior statues to go into the afterlife. Cool finds! CP
Coinpicker Thanks. You are spot on!
At 5:58... This is a statue of Shiva holding baby Ganesha on his lap with Ganeha's mother Parvati. The statues head is broken off. Ganesha is one of several water gods Hindus worship. I croped and enlarged photo of statue on rock and then search on web for similar statue. Near end of video I see the Chinese statues you're talking about. I thought you were talking about 5:58...
@@Sifinds I have a question 🙋🏻♀️ you have a license to dig (I think) up to 2m.
Q: what’s the deepest hole you have dug & what was the item?
I’m loving your videos xx thanks
@@emilyjayne77 Yes I do, but only dug twice. Nothing much apart from a rose farthing and a few pipes. Not worth it really. It’s mega hard work for little reward. But saying that I may try it again one day. Lol
@@Sifinds thank you for your reply 😊 I think you should do a Live Q&A sometime 🤔 I bet there’s loads of folk with questions for you. Mud larking is so interesting! I love all of the history, right there at your fingertips. Wonderful!
Show us your favourite treasures you own 😊 I for one would really enjoy seeing your favourite things. 😃
The knives are Sikh Kirpan not surprising as Gravesend is home to a large Sikh community and has one of the largest Sikh temples in Europe
"You're raking it in!" Got a silly laugh from me!
looks like a barge lost all of its cargo of sweetcorn and rice
For someone who grew up in the middle of the USA in a very small, mostly white, Christian community, I have never seen those little pots and statues! I have been to the Gulf of Mexico, a couple of places in Mexico, and the Atlantic several times. But never seen as much variety of things! So cool to watch you find it all! Thank you for sharing. I would be out there every day, hunting!
Now that looked like fun. I enjoyed this. Thanks from Chicago. Go England Bring it home!!!COYS
dbn52 Thanks mate! It's coming home!!! 🦁🦁🦁
Wow !
Never seen anything like this before,a bit like beach combing.
I'd love to have a go at this.
Thanks for posting such an enjoyable video.
Liked and subbed.
Cheers Tex
The little cups are Diwali lamps. They hold oil or a candle and are lit in celebration.
Hi Si, new sub here. Just been watching through some of your videos, nice work!! So interesting to find you have been to Gravesend - close to where I live. Looking forward to watching more, thank you.
So wanted to pick up that sea glass beside you as you were showing your finds!
Uncle Bens been mudlarking by the looks lol
Very interesting thanks lads 💖😘
Thank goodness our churchyards are not full of 'offerings' of old sausage rolls and eccles cakes.
I don’t mudlark but I do magnet fish, I’m surprised how many tyres and trolleys are there. If I’m ever down that way I will go there and just try to clean it up
So much fun to watch your videos thank you for sharing ,🧐
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I believe the rice, corn and coins are all part of several offering to that deity Si filmed.
I enjoyed this, but I found it a little hard to hear. Nice job though.
He probably has one of those waterproof GoPro cases on because of all of the water
LOL. You should take all those clay oil offering cups and just stack them up next to the wall. "Recycled for your offering convenience." LOL
Looks like a site of devotional offerings, coins, rice, prayer plates, knives
Hello there from over the waters 👋 I like to mudlark over my side of the thames We get a lot of clay pipes and pottery over here. I think a lot of it’s from the old sailors from the docks years ago. There she’s loads of pottery around coalhouse fort area. Haven’t found any areas where there’s offerings found though.
MrStreetboy Hi! Do you find any military items?
i never found a clay pipe there
Mudlarking! Love it.
100 year's time, all those offering bowls will be a future mudlarker's clay pipes
in 100 years, the UK will be a Muslim country and the Hindus would have already been massacred, so that stuff will be real history.
You are on an ancient temple/castle which went through a mega disaster, most likely a huge volcano eruption. There's chambers beneath which links to neighboring mountains. Coins and relics embedded within volcanic glass/limestones or clay. Look for big tree, the chambers should be right next to it. And don't forget to remove the ''main boulders''. Cheers....
Raymond Tan Yes that's the only rational explanation! 🤔😉
I came here from Nicola's channel. I feel like I'm cheating on her now.🤔 Great channel though, I can't believe all the things you find!!
Amazing... No stone left unturned.. 😊
I found 200 b&h gold on the side of the river just a down from there , only a couple of packs were a little damp .
Steffen Moss lucky you!!! 🙂
Thank God for you and Nicola I have my Peace
Thank you for the interesting video.Looks like someone left an offering of rice and yellow peas. Nothing to feed in there. Lots of cool stuff though. Cheers!
The yellow peas are sweetcorn, thanks for watching!
OW I LOVE SEEING THE BOATS GO BY
Hope that sweetcorn hadn’t already been digested 😂
Hahaha! Me too!
LMAO, the pigeons scared me too.
What a haul! Guess not many people had been there hunting before....wow!
Some bloody sweetcorn and Rice isnt there mate 😂😂
From: SUSANN. Hello Si. Could you explain to us foreigners abroad the value relationship of some coins you pick up? You do a fantastic job identifying monarchy reigns fo us, But what is the relationship of a ha” penny to a shilling? Or a 2-P coin to a 10-P?
If I were you guys I'd buy (or rent) a metal detector and go back there. I mean, with all the stuff you found, just imagine what you missed!! Those little knifes are very interesting also, very cool!!
I do detect Bill, lots, but sometimes things are just on the surface. Maybe one day I'll go back and detect it!
Si-finds Very Cool 😎
Thanks for sharing guys x
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I know there's rules as far as mudlarking but are shifting screens allowed? Maybe like a 1/4in size
Throwing all that trash into the river is disrespectful, not only to the country but the land and the animals that have to swim through all their crap Good on you for cleaning some of it up. Can only imagine the amount of garbage they’d haul out of there if they organized a river cleanup
I agree, I think the foreigners should be fined
I think it's terrible that people would do that. I understand some of it has been there a long time. The people that has committed misdeamors should have to perform community service and clean this mess up. In the USA some states have mandatory community service for certain offenses. I couldn't believe all the trash when I first started watching these.
I dunno if animal life is possible in Thames
I am shocked at the amount of trash in that river!
Azalea Acres he's not cleaning up at all ! He's taking the small items he likes home .
Looks like you guys are on the level. That’s good on TH-cam these days. Good day.
Jericho Joe Cheers Dude!
13:45 terra-cotta Chinese soldier they have been making them for a few hundred years but because of the lack of wear it’s probably newer
I have to "level" with you. Great finds.....
You could build a nice little house out in the country with all the bricks and stones on the Thames.
Ah, he needed that little dish for his coin haul!
could the amount of coins found in one site be offerings?
It is that obvious they are, with all the other items of offering around.
Looks like the Ganges with all those offerings and the shit on the foreshore. Like all the offerings and things clogging
In 200 years the mudlarkers of the future will love findings these little offering urns.
so many comments i could make love the vid top stuff but i spat beer when i realised what you said about mudlarking in rice.nice one sir
andrew jones Thanks Andrew! I hate the thought of spilt beer 😉 🍻
Do you need a permit to mudlark on that part of the thames?
or is it just between the thames Barrier and teddington Lock?
Enough coins for a bag of chips and a can of pop 😂
What fun! You sure you weren't on the River Ganges?
It looks like it might be a favorite offering spot. That's why there is rice?
Correct. They offer that in too. But it’s idiotic to throw the bag in too
a real hoard for sure all good
I nice haul overall good sirs!
What were those beautiful little pots you were passing up?
They are offering pots, they would hold offerings to the gods and anole lamp or candle and set adrift probably at Divali.
Is this the Thames or the Ganges.
If it was the Ganges they'd be finding bodies
Gravesend is/was a landing for boats on the Thames river on the way into London from the sea.
Well done, Simon.
Why is there so much corn and rice laying around?
s b Local Indian people leaving river offerings we think
Might sound like a stupid question, but why is the foreshore full of rice and lentils???
What a good bit to find stuf
ARE YOU ALLOWED TO TAKE THE SCRAP METAL TO WEIGH IT IN AT THE SCRAPPY ?
I AM AMAZED BY ALL THE OFFERINGS FROM DIFFERENT RELIGONS FOUND THERE!!!
I wonder what that scary tunnel was for 🤔
Could all those coins in the Thames be an offering for whatever prayers were offered?
Coins and rice and shells Oh my!
The Asian communities have said yes, once the offering has been made they can be taken.
3:52 looks like an old fishing rod ring
In another video you mentioned scraping wasn't permitted on the Thames
Is there a sewerage outlet there?
Fascinating video subscribed
Richie Wisbey Great to have you onboard! Plenty more vids to go through!
Awesome! 😊
Rice and lentils.... that must stink a bit after a while?
If there is a God I guarantee he doesn't appreciate trash "offerings" being thrown into the river ...
or picked up and thrown back in... I would have removed that knife,
Bet you could find some mad stuff in that tunnel, if you just focused 100% on that :p
How fun!
Endless!
Thank you for sharing your finds, I'd love to be able to do that. I have admit though that the amount of trash makes me angry.
Was the hoard of coins from a lost coin purse or were they an offering? Great fines and video.
Where did all of the rice come from?
All Things return to the Sea eventually. Men and Money and Mountains.
Are people allowed to take things like offerings ?
Ian Shaw You should be asking are people allowed to throw plastics into the river?
the item you found at time stamp ( 3:42 ) is the eye from a fishing rod 100%
Spot on pal!
3.50 i'm pretty sure that's the broken eye of a fishing rod. Keep sharing.
What are all the clay pots from?
Indian offerings (prayers etc)
Si , Steve, if you avoid the moving of the camera against the floor, that would made a nicer to see video. Just focusing or aproaching the find. Its nice to see your findings. Good luck guys !
Larry Arevalo The camera was loose, my technique and camera has improved vastly since then!
The river authority should employ you to clean up the shores. And you keep what you find!
Exactly !!!! He'll maybe they could help with the transport of all that so all you would need to do is deposit it a big bin...
You could make a business of selling little clay offering bowls at the river, lol
Well they are modern hindu religious offerings, so even removing them is a touchy subject. So selling them would be very audacious : )
nice scratch about there lads
I wonder why the coins are all there in a bunch?
Cathrine Parsons I believe someone chose that spot to do an offering to a Hindu god. The coins and rice were part of the offering. I actually felt kind of weird and creepy about them taking them-I think I would have left them.
Hey! Did he nick your patch!?
Is that whole river just one big garbage dump?
Like any river. Difference is, without it, we wouldn't have all of these wonderful historical finds.
IT is NOT like any river. It seems maybe like English rivers (since there is another mudlarker who dins a ton of stuff in rural streams suggesting dumping stuff in water is an English pastime.)
It's a river that's seen continual human habitation for over five thousand years. For at least 2,000 of those years it has been not just populated, but densely populated. Hard not to have trash in a river through a populated area, let alone in an area that has seen this much activity for so many years.
Makes me jealous. If I go to the big river I live nearby here in the states, I'm only looking at just over 200 years of activity, and only 100 or so of dense population.
No, just bits. It is a beautiful river with magnificent wildlife such a salmon, sea trout, sturgeon and many birds and otters.
you missed an old strap side flask to your right at 7:08-7:30
Near the prayer plate? I still can't see it, are we talking glass? Thanks
its glass and you almost touched it with one of those bracelets
Ah yes, you mean 17.08, I was looking at 7.08. I did spot it, but left it because it was a screw-top - modern
oh from my angle it looked like it had a rolled lip sorry
When we go back to make part 2 I'll double check!
What's up with all of the rice and corn?
bingo butler Indian offerings to the river gods
what are the little terra-cotta dishes?
Indian votice offerings, they would had candles or oils in them and floated
i wonder if that rice and corn was dumped on purpose, at a beach i used to detect a nasty old swine spread about 2000 thumb tacks around as he didn't detectorists on "his beach", even though it belongs to the queen, he got 200 hours and a ban from the beach for that stunt.
England is beautiful,