part of the openwork background of beaded lattice-work from a medieval pilgrim badge depicting Our Lady in the Undercroft, Canterbury Cathedral. the badge in the 2nd photo is in the London Museum, late 14th century. #mudlarking
fab few days exhibiting #mudlarking finds and giving poetry readings at Waterman’s Hall. the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames was founded in 1514, when the earliest Act of Parliament for regulating watermen, wherrymen and bargemen received Royal Assent from King Henry VIII.
They're currently been worked on, so one of the basins is now empty of water, giving a change to see parts of them you'd never usually get to see. I bet there's some interesting stuff hidden in all that mud!
#glasgow #mudlarking #forthandclydecanal #maryhill #canal
An unusual view of the Maryhill Locks in the northwest of Glasgow. Part of the Forth and Clyde Canal, the locks were constructed in the 1780s.
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#glasgow #mudlarking #forthandclydecanal #maryhill #canal
Don't throw away the past. Build a greater life from it.
#mudlarking #treasure_hunting
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A small bit of a decorated plate held in a washing-up-gloved hand.
The same hand holds a fragment of pottery imprinted with some sort of trifoil decoration.
The Thames foreshore below Tate Modern.
Some tiny bits of glazed crockery in my glove.
Not sure why some days I find loads of fascinating fragments and other days… very little. It might be the way the sunlight picks out bright objects, or my timing, or my mood. It doesn’t matter. The time spent exploring the foreshore is the real treasure. #mudlarking
hand holding a poetry chat book with a bluish grey cover with the title shore thing, and the author name, JR Carpenter. Black-and-white drying of a fossilised sea urchin. Bright orange wall in background.
I am an underling. a shore thing. scanning. eying. sliding. overing. chalk cobble. and flint nodule. pebble. pebble. pebble. gravel. pebble. gravel. oyster shell. brick. brick. brick. brick. until click. the blue of something. smoothed by hand.
small blue bead surrounded by rubble on the Thames foreshore
ARC of my new poetry chapbook, shore thing. all about #mudlarking * illustrated by Theo Rumsby * published by above/ground press * available 1 May. watch this space.
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Two matched little beads, though of slightly different size found some distance apart on the foreshore. Part of a broken necklace? #mudlarking
Spot the find!
Will I go to the gym and do that exercise where you shuffle side to side that’s really good for your hips? Absolutely the fuck not.
Will I go to the beach and kick thousands of pounds of shingle aside because I thought I saw a pipe stem over here? Absolutely yes.
#mudlarking
gloved hand holding battered a very muddy queen conch shell with foreshore rubble in background
tide-battered and worm-eaten after a few centuries in the Thames, this was once a venerable creature, a gentle vegetarian grazing on sea grasses. an endangered species now, queen conch has long been an important food source for humans, sea turtles and octopus 🐙 #mudlarking
battered conch shell eroding out of the Thames foreshore
Aliger gigas, aka queen conch, a large sea snail native to the Caribbean. found eroding out of the Thames foreshore. the thicker the flared lip, the older the conch. this one was very old and almost certainly already dead when shovelled into a ship’s hold to serve as ballast. #mudlarking
I’m exhibiting #mudlarking finds on Sunday 29 March and giving river-themed poetry readings 28 & 29 March 1PM at historic Watermen’s Hall in London. price of admission gets you £5 off my collections with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/river-read...
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It’s been on for a year but I only just snuck into the Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures exhibition @wearelondonmuseum in the final hours. So glad I did, an excellent summary of what was fairly niche only a decade ago, but is now hugely popular. This was something of a greatest hits of the finds on the shores of the river, and was absolutely rammed
It’s been on for a year but I only just snuck into the Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures exhibition @wearelondonmuseum in the final hours. So glad I did, an excellent summary of what was fairly niche only a decade ago, but is now hugely popular. This was something of a greatest hits of the finds on the shores of the river, and was absolutely rammed
It’s been on for a year but I only just snuck into the Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures exhibition @wearelondonmuseum in the final hours. So glad I did, an excellent summary of what was fairly niche only a decade ago, but is now hugely popular. This was something of a greatest hits of the finds on the shores of the river, and was absolutely rammed
It’s been on for a year but I only just snuck into the Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures exhibition @wearelondonmuseum in the final hours. So glad I did, an excellent summary of what was fairly niche only a decade ago, but is now hugely popular. This was something of a greatest hits of the finds on the shores of the river, and was absolutely rammed
It’s been on for a year but I only just snuck into the Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures exhibition @londonmuseum.bsky.social in the final hours. So glad I did, an excellent summary of what was fairly niche only a decade ago, but is now hugely popular #Mudlarking
Museum caption - “Rim sherd from an amphora stamped FAN FORT COL HADR, meaning Fannius Fortunatus Colonia Hadrumetum. Fannius Fortunatus was the most prolific potter in Hadrumetum in North Africa.”
Amphora rim sherd
200-350 CE
Amphora stamped FAN FORT COL HADR, meaning Fannius Fortunatus Colonia Hadrumetum.
Fannius Fortunatus was a major potter in Hadrumetum (Sousse, Tunisia ), a Roman port city.
"Secrets of the Thames" exhibition.
#London Museum - Docklands
#Archaeology #Mudlarking
seating is limited so if you’re planning on attending, do book in advance. #mudlarking
A map showing a marked foreshore exclusion zone on the River Thames near Cannon Street Station. The restricted area is highlighted with red diagonal hatching along the riverside. Below the map, large text reads “FORESHORE EXCLUSION ZONE,” with a red warning triangle beneath it.
Update: Whilst the main repairs to the campshed have now been completed, there remain works to be completed & the exclusion zone remains in place. The website will be updated when the foreshore is reopened.
⛔Reminder - anyone found searching will have their permit removed.
#RiverThames #Mudlarking
Any mudlarkers know what this could be, please. 🙏
Found today on Thames near St Pauls.
Just smaller than a 10p piece.
Has a groove running around its top edge
I am lucky enough to have a permit
#Mudlarking
#Thames
Today I discovered the power of denture cleaning tablets in revealing the decoration on mud-stained 17th century pottery! #mudlarking #earlymodern #materialculture
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⏳ Only 2 weeks left! Explore the Secrets of the Thames exhibit and uncover the hidden history of mudlarking along the River Thames. Don’t miss this rare look at river finds and stories at @wearelondonmuseum through March 1st. Details: bit.ly/secretmudlarking #mudlarking #SecretsoftheThames
Bottles, Plates, and other crap found beneath a 1930s float home on the John Day River, Astoria. Foggy multi-paned windows in the background, with the aforementioned river, blurred.
The 1946 Salmon Queen said that there's a mountain of whiskey bottles down there, and she wasn't kidding. Dive-finds, beneath my house, Astoria, Oregon. #Astoria #still_life #mudlarking #bottles
More from my favorite dreamer/mudlarker. Isn't "mudlarker" a beautiful word? She lights the way in darkness.
#tresure_hunting #mudlarking #discovering_the_past
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Assorted glazed pottery crap
Smashed up bits of pottery and crockery
Fun times mudlarking on the Thames Foreshore during my lunch break. #mudlarking #thames #treasure #rubbishactually
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