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Post-Medieval Cloth Seal! 500 Year Old Pottery! Mudlarking with Old Father Thames: 16.07.20
Hello Mudlarking Friends! I’m back on the River Thames after four long months, so join me down on the foreshore to see what I find today. From teeth to pottery and curious post-medieval metal items, the history hunt is on and I’m talking you through the treasures I find. I also find something I’ve been…
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Mudlarking Exhibition: Foragers of the Foreshore, 24-29 September 2019
Time Out says…“Back in the Victorian era, scavengers known as ‘mudlarkers’ would traipse around the banks of the River Thames searching for rare and unusual finds. These foragers have been celebrated in two new exhibitions that delve into the history of mudlarking, while there will also be guided mudlarking sessions that you too can join in…
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Occult Inspired Mudlark Folk Art
Now available to buy in my online shop, an occult folk art inspired box frame display made from repurposed finds from the mysterious tidal Thames. Tiny metal objects, my favourite foreshore bits and pieces, include copper, brass, iron, lead, tin and alloys, and feature treasured objects such as hand made Tudor pins and hand forged…
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Victorian Clay Pipe
❄️Mudlarks Advent, Day 6❄️ Incomplete Victorian clay pipe, bust of Queen Victoria on one side, crown on the other. No other marks but I suspect it was made to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. . According to a Chris Jarrett of the Society for Clay Pipe Research, “a possible pipe maker for this bowl…
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Bellarmine
Out of town today but still managed to find some pins, lead cutlery and a Bellarmine jug. The pins seen here are some of the last few made at the Oracle, once a seventeenth century workhouse founded by John Kendrick, at Minster Street, Reading. The Oracle building was later used as a barracks, then as…
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