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C18th pewter button, tiny, showing eight petal design. Shown posed in my black-gloved hand on the Thames Foreshore.
Tiny C18th pewter button found on the Thames Foreshore on one of this week’s two sunny days. Eight petalled flower design, so much pretty detail for such a small item. Always a treat to find haberdashery from the river #mudlark
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A magpie-lark, or more commonly called a mudlark, a small black and white bird, with a pale green eye, and grey beak, is standing on green grass. It's beak is open, and we can see It's slightly forked pink tongue hanging out, in it's beak is a piece of food, and quite a bit of saliva.
My mother always told me to chew with my mouth closed. Clearly Mudlarks weren't. #birds #ausbirds #magpie-lark #mudlark
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My first #London 🇬🇧 trip in January 2026 🏖
Its the London Museum Docklands 🏛 for 'Secrets of the Thames' 🌊 exhibition ✨
A brilliant mix of #art objects and interpretation 😊
I can feel a 2027 #Thames trip looking at #WW2 conflict #archaeology in the planning 🤔
#heritage #history #mudlark #chill
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Cobalt blue (paste) gem stone, likely to be Georgian-era, probably from a gent’s cufflink, seen in my black gloved hand on the Thames Foreshore this week.
Cobalt blue paste gemstone as I first spotted it on the Thames Foreshore, its colour popping out from the usual grey, beige, brown and black stones, mud and gravel.
Some Georgian-era sparkle from the Thames this week. A startling cobalt blue paste gemstone, impossible to miss this pop of colour among the beige, brown & grey of the foreshore at low tide. Likely to have been lost from an 18th century gent’s cufflink. The Georgians adored their bling #mudlark
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View of the Thames Foreshore at night. OXO Tower in the distance, utterly beautiful at low tide.
Night lark. London is so beautiful #mudlark
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Morning view of the Thames Foreshore at low tide on a mild blue sky/light cloud day. Southwark Bridge in the distance and the Shard too.
Office for the day. One of the best views #Mudlark #RiverThames
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Porcelain saucer missing its sides - black on white image, with some red & yellow colour, of a tree root upside down giving off similar vibes to Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
Sherd from a porcelain saucer found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday. Tree root giving off heavy Edvard Munch ‘The Scream’ vibes 😱 #mudlark
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Colourful terracotta offerings bowls, found on the riverside during low tide. Hindu offerings to the Gods.
More colourful offerings pots, part of a Hindu ritual at this time of year, offerings ti the Gods.
A third group of ritual Hindu offerings to the Gods, found on the Thames Foreshore at low tide.
Two statuettes of Hindu Gods, found on the Thames Foreshore at low tide.
Re the last repost & explanation, I am fascinated by these Hindu offerings in the Thames. More spotted at Twickenham Riverside during the annual Draw-Off yesterday. Mostly little terracotta offerings pots. Unless they’re plastic (not good for wildlife) I usually leave them where they are #mudlark
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Baby is growing up, can fly and sits on my clothesline 😭🙌🖤🤍
Update 🙌
Baby Magpie Lark can fly a little and actually SITS ON MY CLOTHESLINE 😭😭 I'm so blessed 🤍🖤 #Wildlife #MagpieLark #Mudlark #Australia
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This Way Up - "Because the worst maps are the best maps"
The map men : @jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
Trail to be revealed: www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/...
@harpercollins.bsky.social #mudlark OUT OCT 23!!!! #mapmonday
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Baby mudlark sitting on the ground being the cutest patootie in the world 😭🖤🤍
Baby Mudlark waiting for a parent to come back with a snakkie
Can someone please appreciate this baby floofy Mudlark with me 😭 It stumbles over the smallest sticks and I can't deal it's so FUCKING CUTE 🖤🤍 #Wildlife #Magpielark #Mudlark #Australia
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Slab of likely 1960s concretion with brown tiles, probably from a wall but could be floor. Posed in my hand on the Thames Foreshore at low tide, the Shard and London Bridge in the distance.
Yeah. Not a slab of chocolate but concretion with brown tiles, and definitely has a 1960s interior décor look, if you ask me. The river has forever been used as a dustbin for building rubble, whether Roman or from the modern era #Mudlark #ThamesForeshore
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These type of beads went around the world. When they say that Manhattan Island in New York was purchased for a handful of beads, I imagine these were what they were speaking of. #mudlark
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Folklore has it’s own sort of charm. Where I am from, they say that you can fortell the severity of winter by looking inside a persimmon seed. If you can see what looks like a soon, then you’ll be shoveling a lot of snow that year. #mudlark #amreading
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Maybe the water washes away sorrow and grief, leaving the item cleansed for the #mudlark to find? #amreading
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Poster's hand holding a slim aluminum soap bubble can with faded blue-yellow paint.
Looks like I got pretty lucky on my latest litter-run-come-mudlarking-trip in our local lil (currently dry) stream hehe 😁
Hey Germans, remember when Pustefix came in aluminium cans??
(no seriously tho—anyone know when? Cuz I found none like this looking online ...)
#mudlark #litter #nerd
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Close up of pebbles, shells, and detritus on the bank of the Thames. In the centre is a white pottery sherd in the rough shape of a heart.
One of our volunteers is a mudlark - today she found this. Hearts follow us. ❤️
#London #mudlark
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Small sherd of medieval pottery seen in my hand. The sherd is covered in a lightly speckled moss green glaze and is decorated in a lattice pattern. Possibly Kingston-type Surrey Whiteware, produced in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Sweet little sherd of medieval pottery found on the Thames Foreshore recently. Typical moss green-glaze of the period with a lattice design, possibly a Kingston-type of Surrey whiteware. Kingston (Surrey) was prolific in pottery production during the 13th and 14th centuries #Mudlark #RiverThames
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From a recent mudlarking trip to the Thames Foreshore, a lovely piece of worked bone with a hole drilled in the centre. My guess is 18th/19th century because of the location, but I have no idea what it might have been used for, perhaps a gaming piece? Ideas welcome 1/ #mudlark #ThamesForeshore
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Black and white bird staring directly at camera. It is perched on a white bowl and had been screaming at us for some time
Black and white bird perched on side of white bowl about to start eating a giant piece of meat in its beak.
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Blue on white pottery sherd found on the Thames Foreshore & showing a gent dressed in a Grecian style toga, lounging nonchalantly on a stone seat.
Hot weather style goalz. Ten out of ten for nonchalant lounging in a Grecian toga & styling it out with a dinky bracelet #mudlark #ThamesForeshore
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A round and slightly yellow glass bottle top is held between two fingers with the ocean behind it
Also found this cool bottle top or stopper. Lying inside of a bone lol #mudlark #mudlarking
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A white hand holds a green marble in front of the shoreline
Eric found a sea marble within five minutes of our mudlarking adventure today. He's so good at this game #mudlark
That makes two sea marbles in my collection!
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First sight of my 18th century Chinese Export tea bowl poking out of the mud on the Thames Foreshore mud. A tantalising glimpse of blue on white.
Blue on white decoration on my 18th century Chinese Export tea bowl, one side beautifully decorated with a bird. Sadly the excavated bowl was incomplete.
The hope (left) versus the reality (right) of mudlarking. So often the way - you spot something potentially exciting (a complete 18thC Chinese Export porcelain tea bowl would have been so cool) then you excavate & find it’s broken. C’est la vie #mudlark #mudlarking
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Nice sherd of blue on white 18th century Chinese Import porcelain found on the Thames Foreshore this morning. A pretty scene showing houses, hills, trees & foliage.
Nice sherd of blue on white 18th century Chinese import porcelain found on the Thames Foreshore this morning. From a bowl destined for a high status table as this pottery would have been expensive. Pretty little scene showing a landscape with houses, trees & foliage #mudlark
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Sherd of green on white pottery found on the Thames Foreshore, seen in my hand, and featuring a crane (bird.) In Japan these were viewed as sacred creatures symbolising peace, luck and longevity.
Sherd of green on white Victorian-era transferware pottery from the Thames, featuring a crane. These birds were considered powerful symbols in Japan, where nature has played an important role in many myths & legends, also in arts and crafts. The crane represents peace, luck and longevity #mudlark
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So disappointing when a tiktok creator you've followed for years outs themselves as a reform voter who attends anti immigration protests in London #mudlark *blocked*
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