EXCITED Mudlarkers make AMAZING 6,000 year-old discovery!
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Join Mudlarks Si and Sean as they explore the mudflats of East England and discover a truly amazing find just sitting in the mud! If you enjoyed this then watch the time they almost drowned visiting an abandoned WW1 U-Boat • We nearly DIED Mudlark...
Become a Patron and get behind the scenes stories!
/ sifinds
My Etsy store where you can buy my up-cycled bottles and more!
www.etsy.com/u...
#mudlover #luckinthemuck #sifinds
To Mudlark the Thames foreshore legally you need a permit from the PLA, please see their website for more details
pla.co.uk/Envir...
Other websites to check out
www.mudlarking.com
www.thamesbuttons.com
www.hovercrafthistoryhunters.com
www.thamespipes.com
© Simon Bourne 2022
Thanks for watching Mudlovers! Why not watch the one where we almost died! th-cam.com/video/cmL5fgD6R4Y/w-d-xo.html 👍🏻🐾🧡
That small blade for shaving
Beautiful finds!
I did watch it close call
That point is just exquist. Whoever knapped that was a master knapper. Not much could top that except Beaker culture point with a long dainty tail on one side only. Then you'd really have to write home about. Very nice point and blades none the less!
@@donteague614 I did get one of them very next time I went.. ! :))) Oblique type arrowhead. Plus a further leaf shaped arrowhead.
You've taken me down memory lane with the Mussels and Oysters!
My late Dad and me used to collect Winkles, Mussels, Cockels if there had been a rough sea and sometimes Oysters on a Sunday morning to take home and cook for our Tea. Dad used to leave the Oysters in salt water changing it everyday for seven days before eating them and I can still very vividly remember how long to cook winkles, heavily salting them in water first to remove the grit etc and the smell of freshly cooked Seafood with lashings of bread and butter, vinegar and pepper and a hot mug of tea.
Thank you Simon for taking me back to those moments of my childhood. My Dad passed away 13 years ago and memories like this with looking for driftwood and building a little fire to heat our cans of soup up whilst we were collecting seafood. These memories are worth more than anything else in the world to me.
Thank you x
Thank you for sharing your beautiful memories.
@@karinberonius8799 Thank you!
@@maarinabudd 😊
Aw what a lovely memory. Thanks for sharing x
Yes, we used to do a lot of searching for shellfish when I was a child. The big cook ups and the feast with vinegar, pepper ( plus big slices of buttered vienna loaf) were indeed memorable.
Whoa!!! The person who made that arrowhead was an ARTIST-beautiful find, that is! I’m stymied!
Us too!
Stunning. Absolutely stunning!
What great finds...I'm a part time Archeologist and know the thrill you get when you find something extra special. Who needs modern art when you can find beautiful things like this 👍
Very true 👍🏻🐾🧡
The close up of the arrowhead was so beautiful. Congrats for a great find Sean
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Gorgeous find! Incredible workmanship. Seems every day we realize more and more how skilled and cosmopolitan our ancestors really were.
Indeed! Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
I've been hunting artifacts in Oregon since I was 4. I have seen you and Nic walk over SOOO many worked pieces! Yet I can't see a coin 90% of the time. It's all in how your eyes are trained.
Hi Barbara. I'm a rockhound from Nevada and have thought the same thing. Wait! Wait! Artifact!
My eyes are trained for artifacts that you find in a typical dumpsite and I can spot one a mile away. I've wanted to find an arrowhead since I was a kid but don't know what I'm looking at when I'm comes to chips and bits and pieces. I find it interesting how we have trained ourselves differently.
that is so true Barbara.
I love Oregon!! In 1991 we went to Cannon Beach and stayed the weekend. We live just outside of Vancouver BC. Our baby did his first roll over there. Great memories. Enjoy!!☀️🌊
Awesome video Si, Tell Sean congratulations on the Arrow head, that has to be the most beautiful one I've ever seen.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Sean's point was beautiful. Larger points like that are usually considered to be knives or atlatl dart points over here. A section of antler works better that a rock for controlled flint knapping
So often people think America has no old history. We really, really do as projectile points are not rare at all. (At least not in Kansas)
Antler's great for final edge finishing and resharpening or touching up. Knapping is an artform in itself. 👍
I picked it up a few years ago, and started off by practicing on the bottoms of beer bottles and other bits of broken glass. Took me 3 months to make a viable point in the form of an arrowhead 🤣
Thank you so much for the nice video Si and Sean 👣🧡 😁 x
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
The flints are such works of art, it always amazes me how beautiful they are. And finding some beaker pottery is so cool too!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Great to see Sean again 👏
What a find...congratulations!!!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
This is what I do, I find Native American artifacts . The way Sean hugged you, that’s the way I hug my husband when we hunt together and I find something. It’s such an incredible feeling! That arrowhead is truly beautiful! Congrats Sean!!!!! You too Si!! That flint is beautiful! Now come visit America and I’ll show you how to find some beautiful arrowheads!
Hey der! from Madison, Wisc. Do you have a channel showing your finds? I’d love to learn how to find arrowheads and such!
Happy to! Cheers Liz
I never did find a flint arrowhead. When hunting for certain rocks, I would pickup every large piece of flint I found and add it to my collection. When we got home, I would have my father look through my finds. Flint pieces look wonderful in rock gardens.
😊👍🏻👣🧡
Good Sunday afternoon Si and all
Alright Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Awesome finds, Si! You and your friends never disappoint!
Cheers Ken! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Si and Sean together with a huge amount of love of history! Some famous sexy words used to describe Debi and Neo. Special finds. Blessings
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Great finds Si and congrats to Sean on a stellar find! If you care to know, the reason the blades typically have a high ridge running the length of the blade on one side is due to the nature in which a flake travels. Flakes travel best, as well as more predictably, when following a ridge and over a convex surface. Great video!
Great info. Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
That arrowhead is a gorgeous work of art, what a find! It's beauty and shape also tells the story that it's creator spent some serious time learning the art of flint knapping. I would imagine whoever taught them was also highly skilled. Each knap mark on that represents a productive moment of that persons life. 6000 years later and it's still an amazing treasure. Love the western and Flint Eastwood references also.. heh! You both had some great luck in the muck my friend!
Haha cheers Montana 👍🏻🐾🧡
Given one such a connection to people 6K years ago...people with the same concerns in life we have, for food, shelter,protection etc. Best video yet. Thanks for this.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
You don't need a magnet. Very interesting, all the different places and things you look for! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Really? their lives so so distant from an average ^resent day urban dweller who wanders down to the corner shop and has a refrigerator and instant heat cooking appliance in their home.
Speak for yourself!
Love the updated duck feet! Lol! Amazing to recognize Neolithic worked stones!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Wow! Just the greatest 😊♥️
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Wow! Big smile on my face watching this ! That arrowhead is just miraculous!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Wow wow wow! That was so amazing and lovely to see the joy!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Awesome finds guys. Congrats on your beautiful point Sean.👍
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Well done Si, excellent as always. Till next time.🐘🌞🍁🇨🇦
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Green with envy doesn’t even come close to how I feel. How lucky you both were especially Sean. My tip for oysters is spit them out lol. Really enjoyed this video thank you.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
That you can find an item made so very, very long ago is amazing. Sean found a great arrowhead. It would have been so wonderful if you could have found a much larger piece (half ?) of the pottery.
Well you can't have it all
Great episode that Si. Very educational.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
I had to watch this again. I was so excited for Sean the first time. Sean was so joyful . The arrowhead is beyond magnificent. Amazing!!!
Hey Si, forgot to add how much I appreciate your joyful attitude and zest for knowledge. We are all always learning something or other. Sincerely, a Mudlover from Wisconsin, in the US. 🥰
Cheers Kellie! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Amazing to watch! I'm in Indiana, in the States, and as a child hunted arrowheads with my Dad and Brother. What I find amazing is that half a world apart indigenous people were working and using flint in identical ways! Simply amazing!!
Thanks for the educational mudlark!!
Cheers Sherry! 👍🏻🐾🧡
This episode was so exciting to watch! It's always a treat to watch you mudlark with your buddies, but I've rarely Sean, (got a lot of Si-Finds videos to watch), this one was particularly exceptional & gratifying. Everyone has a specialty, and Sean's is finding neolithic tools/shards. We were treated to a lesson in finding them, what to look for and how they were used. Every find was an education. But it all came together when Sean found the arrow head/ blade! So excited for him, especially since he was with you! Thank you so much for your hard & dedicated work, and keeping us history lovers 'up-to-date' with the history in the Thames. You are the Mud Lover : D
Cheers Liz! Appreciate that lovely comment
Lots of bronze and iron age stuff around here. Quite often the rabbits and badgers throw up some nice fragments of pottery and flint tools when excavating their wardens and sets. They're easy to spot as it's mostly chalk spoil. Always amazing to hold something really old that another human made. Thanks for taking us along. Be well.
Cheers Rob!
Warrens! Autocorrect stripes aghast. ............
LOVE the excitement and joy....awesome finds!!!! great day out!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Debbi Taj was fired from the salon when she was caught having a knap so her coworker Flint went on strike 😲🍻
Brilliant
hehehe
Oh, Simon, what a dream come true to find this stuff!!!! Cheers!!🍺🍻
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Im so jealous what an incredible and beautiful object amazing work as always Si love it
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
So cool to find items that people made 6k years ago, blows my mind. Sean's point is a magnificent find! 💛
Congrats to Sean on his leaf shape arrowhead. I wish I had known what to look for when I was a kid on the family ranch. We had Flint Hill that was covered with flint. We knew there had to be arrowheads because it was the perfect area of Texas. Alas, that part of the ranch was sold.
Aw shucks
Oh what a fabulous video, that arrow head is beautiful. How amazing to be holding something that was last handled by someone who lived six thousand years ago!😃💚
Cheers Cath 👍🏻🐾🧡
Such cool finds. Obsidian is sooo pretty! Great Sunday Funday Si!
It’s flint, but thanks 👍🏻🐾🧡
Phenominal projectile!! A real beauty!
Cheers Wade 👍🏻🐾🧡
Wow! The arrow head was amazing! I love how you learned from Sean - and got some beautiful blades, too.
Cheers Liz 👍🏻🐾🧡
Love this! Congrats on the beautiful finds. I love that the various Native American blades I've found in California are the same as what was being made by the early people in so many parts of the world. So far apart geographically, but so many parallels.
Cheers Shirley! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Im so happy for Sean! Such a nice little arrowhead 👍😊
Nice finds in todays video💕
So happy i found your channel💕💕
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Great find, that’s what we go hunt for is Native American flint artifacts in the Texas panhandle, the predominant flint is Alibates flint.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
my 1st stone tool find was by far my best. and i found it entirely by happenstance! was playing with my friends running around in one of my grandpas fields when i tripped. and there about 4-5 inches from my nose was a 3.5 inch spearpoint or knife blade! it was on a little mud pedestal because it had rained recently and washed the surrounding dirt away from it. needless we all stopped playing and spent the next few hours searching for more lol. didnt find anything more that day.
Nice!
congrats to Sean on his amazing find!
Cheers!
I'm shocked unreal find Sean. Nearly brought me to tears. All the effort is worth it when you find something so fantastic. Well done 👍
Cheers Lillian 👍🏻🐾🧡
Crazy nice arrowhead/$craper!
So facinating... Such amazing artifacts laying about like candy! Congrats on both of your finds!!😍
Cheers guys 👍🏻🐾🧡
Raw oyster in shell, shot of vodka, squeeze of lime
Best ever
Oooh nice! Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Those 6000 year old flint tools, worked bits and the magnificent arrowhead point are just stunning. The piece of iron age pottery was an excellent find as well. If I went out there, I'd be searching every day for a month and not get tired of it for an instant.
Congratulations Sean!!
WONDERFUL!!! Thank you.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Hey Sci! I really liked this video! I'm an old artifact collector and Flintknapper and really appreciate this. That first large utilized flake you found was beautiful! I love ALL of your videos but stone tools are my passion. Thanks!!!
Thanks so much! If you have any places we can search then feel free to get in touch sifinds@outlook.com
What an interesting video! Love learning new things and I did not know flint could be so beautiful.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
The pottery find was a amazing as well.
We lived in Saudi Arabia and made some trips to the Empty Quarter and found so many arrowheads and tools for making them from Neolithic period! They were everywhere! That would be a great trip to go “sand” larking!
Wow!!
Quick corny joke:
How is flint Eastwood like low quality,cheap Toilet paper?
Answer:
It’s tough as nails,and doesn’t take shit from nobody.
Thank you ladies and gents,I’ll be here all week!
How long have you been waiting for the perfect opportunity to tell that joke? 😁😁😁 BINGO!
haha
That was a dream day out for those of us who love history... And you gave us the opportunity to share it with you😘
Ty for making subs/CC available, Si! 🥰👏
That arrowhead is to die for !! Awesome 👍😎
I'm liking the wordplay Si, right up my street! Haha!
And Steve's arrowhead is amazing, textbook example I should think! 👊👌
I didn't get chance to show Sean the rocks I showed you, before he left, wish I'd of asked you to take with you now!
Hopefully show him next time!
Hi Ray. Ah yes, you were too keen to get detecting! We’ll be back 🤜🏼🤛🏼
Im usually not too keen on flints, but that arrowhead is beautifull. Well deserved great find!
Right! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Aaaww the excitement is palpable and so cute! Emotional finds! So sweet.
Cheers Mudlover! 👍🏻🐾🧡
That beautiful arrowhead - what a find ! And the skill that's needed to make it...
Awesome!!! 🇨🇦
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
The maker, that made that arrowhead, was truly upset when he lost it. Imagine hunting with that!
Maybe he made it for a person with a bad aim 🎯
The arrow head is gorgeous! Mmm grilled oyster. That looked delicious. In Pennsylvania, I'm used to eating them fried. Loved going out on the flats with you two!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Brilliant. Thanks gents.
Nice cette pointe de flèche!!!!!!!!👍
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Love that beaker pottery. I am imagining it was made with coils and this patterns a way to make joining and sealing interesting for the maker. Thank you for taking us along!
You tools are my favorite tools evah!Thanks for this EPIC luck in the muck!! So excited for you!! Cheers from Northern California!!!
Cheers Mudlover 👍🏻🐾🧡
That was very interesting! Congratulations Sean on your amazing find! The leaf arrowhead is similar to ones found here in the US, the pottery too as it even had the same/similar patterns. Wow! What a great hunt this must have been! Thank you both for taking us with you!
Our pleasure. Cheers for watching. Like and share 👍🏻🐾🧡
Wow! Wonderful finds. Such a beautiful point. It's incredible to imagine the hands that last held them. It must fill you with awe and emotion. Thank you for sharing the experience.
It really did! Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Lovely shoes for muddy foreshore. Congrats to Sean on finding that beautiful arrow head. Is your flint eye is good already, lovely finds too. Well, I have never tried an oyster so can't say anything to that. Wonderful video again Simon! Hugs!
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Wow what a beautiful piece is the Arrow head from 6.k years ago simply magical. And to be able to see the intricate details on each one is wonderful. Congratulations 🎊
Cheers! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Wow! Loved that last arrow head!It is fabulous!
That arrow head was well worth the five hours searching all by itself! Well done 👏
It was!
That arrow head was just superb, what an exciting find!
Fantastic adventure! Congratulations on your find Shawn; it's a beauty! Si, your 2 blade finds are wonderful too! And, the Beaker shards ... awesome too!
We attended the "Paleological Odyssey" in Santa Fe, New Mexico around 5 years ago. I have a life long interest in the peopling of the western hemisphere so this was sort a gift to myself. On a couple of days there were tables and display cases set up with napped blades of all sorts of styles. I was casually looking at them, admiring the designs and imagining who might have used them in which way when I got to the cases of the truly magnificent, gobsmacking, pristine spearpoints, blades and arrowheads that the scientific community usually concludes were probably ceremonial. I was actually brought to tears when I saw them! The craftsmanship and the obvious importance to their makers and the members of their community who honored them so many millenia ago overwhelmed me. Some were of flint, jasper, obsidian and the truly awesome were made from quartz of many different colors. A few were literally clear like a water goblet made of lead crystal! But, I must say that arrowhead or small spear tip that Sean pulled from the muck looked as perfect as these "ceremonial" artifacts. I totally identified with that spontaneous hug you guys shared because finding and holding in one's hand of something so human and lovely is like bridging all those years and let's us feel somehow close to those people whose lives were so foundational to who were are today! Bravo!
Absolutely agree with that... totally mind blowing to hold something that was so delicately crafted by hand 6000 years ago. There is a real connection, it almost feels like time travel.! I do think this is likely to be a ceremonial piece.. The site is quite special. Thanks for the lovely comment. :))))
Hi Sean, fantastic arrowhead mate. I'm well jealous lol. Great find mate.
Hi Barry... Yes, it was a fantastic day mate... Great to see you on here..! :)) 👍
@@seanwatcham8308 hi Sean, always watch Si, great to see you out with him educating him lol. Don't forget to shout me if Si or Nic visit our neck of the woods.
@@barrykirrage7230 I will do mate...! We are probably all due a trip out together again soon. 👍
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SI! My Dad just turned 90 on the 17th, not sure if quite the same as you -hope you had a great day & a Super Mucky Year to come!! With LOADS of FUN! 🎂🎂🥇🥇🎂🎂🥂🥂🦘🦘🙋♀🙋♀🐾🐾🐔🐔🐱🐱🥂🥂👍👍🍻🍻
Hello Simon, I absolutely love watching your adventures & turning trash into treasures. When I was doing a lot of deep shipwreck diving we'd find many treasures and they all needed special care. We'd put many of the smaller items into the back of the toilet tank. Sometimes for over a year. It worked quite well.
Thanks for the long linger on that absolutely spectacular arrowhead so we could all really appreciate the workmanship. What a find!
Cheers Mandy👍🏻🐾🧡
Glad for this lesson for this winter's flint watch! So much of it on the island. I was thinking it was ballast stones but there were also very early Arawak and Lucayan Indians etc.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡
Wow amazing this arrow head! please si finds go more on neolithic finds with Sean!
I shall!
That was incredible that arrow head wow ,I learnt so much,thank you,I love muscles with garlic cream and white wine.
Yum 👍🏻🐾🧡
Even Phil Harding would have been excited about that gorgeous leaf shaped blade. Beautiful! Way to go, Si, on your find, too.
I bet! Cheers 👍🏻🐾🧡
That arrow head is an exquisite work of art. The workmanship involved is incredible.
Great finds. The Arrowhead is a Stunner. Can't but think how Smart and Tallented the Guys were in 4.000 BC.
And Having 'Played' at some Archery when Younger, how Gutted would the Guy be Feeling. After Loosing that Arrowhead.
Great Video guys. What a Find. On what looked like a Perfect Day..!
Thx for letting us Join in..!!
Cheers Guys. Kim in Oz. 😎
That arrowhead is spectacular! The adrenaline must have been flowing through the veins. Living in northern Arizona, I've come across some beautiful objects that have made my heart beat extra hard. Well done, gents!
My late husband Jack was an Anthropologist/Archaeologist who worked for the state of California by overseeing dig sites to make certain an ancient campsite or burial grounds weren’t being disturbed. His area of expertise was lithic (stone) tools. I wasn’t aware the British Isles had so much obsidian!
What a great video . That island of yours is packed with history going back incredibly far . Thanks .
Cheers Linda 👍🏻🐾🧡
Fantastic finds and friends! Congratulations to both of you! That arrowhead though... I can imagine the person who once lost it being just as distraught over losing it as Sean was elated to find it.
Exactly!!
@@Sifinds ☺️🌸
Wow Simon and Sean!!! What super artifacts! Just to see that point, that piece of Fine Art is amazing and worth every gaze! This is the highest form of technology and art of the day and still stands 6000 years later! Thank You So Much for sharing your beautiful finds! Many Blessings with Love, Light, Peace and Joy of Being and Larking! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Cheers DJ! 👍🏻🐾🧡
I sort of put this one off until I had more time today. I have to admit that at the very first I was thinking I wasn’t going to be that interested. When Sean was explaining at the beginning and you you were starting to look, I didn’t really have a clear picture at all of what, exactly you were looking for - it all looked the same!
Then you started finding things and running them past Sean and suddenly it clicked! Once I understood the process and how the tools were made, I was hooked. And then you found that first blade and I was so excited for you. I felt like I’d found it myself simply because you’d so cleverly taught it to us.
Sean’s arrowhead or point, or whatever the proper term is, was nothing short of amazing! Absolutely perfectly symmetrical. How is it possible that with the materials to hand, someone could make such a perfectly beautiful and perfectly useful object? The pure joy of the find on Sean’s face and the sheer pleasure of seeing a friend so happy on your face was truly the highlight!
And then you found the piece of beaker… THAT would be what brought me back to that place! There was just something about it that spoke to me. I hope you return and find more!
Thanks, Si, for reminding me to just sit back and enjoy because whatever you show us is bound to be fascinating!
Thanks Lucinda! Glad you liked it sweetie!! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Awesome find, here in Florida you can't even pick them up unless on private land.
Cheers Mudlover! 😊👍🏻👣🧡