Mudlarking adventure in Berwick-upon-Tweed, with the Northern Mudlarks.
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2020
- A few days into the new decade, I got to meet, and mudlark with the wonderful Mother and Daughter duo: The Northern Mudlarks. It was a beautiful day, and Berwick-upon-Tweed was a beautiful place to explore.
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We loved it, Tom! It was interesting to see Berwick from another point of view too! We really had a lovely lark with you and we look forward to having you back. We would love to come to visit your territory sometime in the future also 😁 Oh, and congratulations on 5K subscribers! Onwards and upwards! Gail & Alex x
Thank you for telling us the history on that beautiful bridge. Fascinating.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. There's so much more history to that town, I think I'd like to re-visit it this year 🙂
What better way to spend my Sunday morning than mudlarking and learning more about UK history?? :)
AND Northern Mudlarks?? This is a double treat!
Sadly I don't quite have the hang of filming with other people yet, but it was a lovely day with lovely people. I hope the rest of your Sunday is a pleasant one; Sunday does now seem to be the day when a lot of UK mudlarkers upload. 🙂
Such a beautiful location! The glass ball was lovely and the mud was very sticky (tend to try and keep away from sticky mud haha) Always love a good skull and jaw bone :)
It is indeed a beautiful place, I hope if you're staying up North long enough, that you get the chance to have a bit of a lark there!? (Just guessing that your first choice might be Ruby Bay!? I'd certainly like to shoot a video there). I don't think the mud on the Tweed is quite as deep as Kate encountered, I'm so glad there were such helpful people around to get her to safety. 🙂
Swans never get tired of being told they are beautiful. Demure and graceful as well.
I enjoy your video's Tom, the little bits of history you throw in I like, I also am a fan of the ladies you were with and their Vid's, looking forward to your next outing, take care
Thank you, I'm glad you like both our channels. It's been great meeting other youtubing mudlarkers and getting to see other places, and learning about the history. 🙂
a string of little lights in that glass ball would be stunning!
I certainly want to try and light it up one day... maybe as the eye in a papier mache creature. 🙂
Another peaceful journey with my favorite mud lark! Like a soothing balm for my soul, from your voice, to the sounds of life. May I call you the "Bob Ross" of mudlarks? You do a service with your videos. We all owe you!
Sure, Bob Ross was an amazing man, being compared favorably with him is a lovely complement. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 You remind me of him a great deal. You are an outlet for many who cannot go out, especially my Mom! She loves you and so do I! Thank you!
Tom, the tone of your voice could enchant and subdue even the deaf - The calmness found in your videos is a perfect respite from the frenzy of life... and the knowledge you impart is truely a gift..... you are a veritable feast of sight and sound... more please.. more...
Aw, thank you for such a complimentary and encouraging comment. 🙂
He should do guided meditation!
Yes, he could read the owners manual to a lawnmower and I would be enthralled just by his voice.😊
@@greyferguson9319 hahaha yes indeed, I could too 😄
Why would you want to subdue the deaf
I love seeing the different bridge structures...such interesting shapes and heights.
Yes, I'm probably part troll judging by how much I appreciate and enjoy being under bridges. 🙂
For 6 weeks in a forgotten century, I travelled from Berwick-upon- Tweed mouth (what we were told it was called) daily to various parts of Scotland within a days travel from our B and B. I had not forgotten the old bridge and the river. It was the hottest summer in Scotland on record with temperatures reaching the unheard of highs of 80 or more degrees F. I so enjoyed it, the best vacation I ever had in the place my grandparents can from in yet another century. Such memories you awaken. Thank you.
Has the name "Bob Ross" ever been mentioned in comments before? ;-) ;-) Thank you for sharing your adventures. :-)
Only a few times so far. Bob Ross was an amazing man, I'm happy some people see a resemblance in my voice. 🙂
Michael Robichaud ah the joys of the 70’s!
What a wonderful way to end the "Sunday mudlark update" videos. Your voice is very soothing and your tendency to venture off on your own & gather bits & bobs in contemplation reminds me of my own beachcombing days. Cheers & thanks for sharing!
Thanks Susan... I do like to wander off, it's the solitude in nature that really drew me into this hobby, and it's a hard habit to shake when trying to film with others; so I'm glad you see it as a feature rather than a flaw. 🙂
A lovely lark with fun friends. The sea glass is quite lovely, as is the glass globe. Thank you for the history on the bridge, always fun to learn new things! Till next time, take care! xx ~Jen
Thanks Jen, I'm glad you found a few things to enjoy about it. Till next time, take care... Tom. 🙂
I am enjoying your channel Tom and I follow the Northern Mudlarks. I find it so interesting, educational, and relaxing. Well done.
Thank you. I'm glad you get som much out of both our channels. Tom 🙂
Enjoyed your lark along the River Tweed. The railroad bridge is a beautiful piece of architecture! I very much enjoyed it.
Thank you, I'm glad you keep on getting enjoyment from my videos. 🙂
Lovely trip as always! I’m so glad to see two of my favorite mudlarks together. Yes I’d love to see them come visit your neck of the woods , maybe that can be soon. Thanks again Tom and I so enjoy your photography. It’s like almost being there!
Thanks Lynn, it really was a lovely day and the Northern Mudlarks were a pleasure to spend it with. They are planning a visit here sometime; it looks like Kit and the Caboodlers might be the first visitors this year though. I'm glad my photography is enjoyable, I've still got so much to learn. 🙂
Your voice is wonderful, and your speech pattern resemble people from about 2 hundred years ago, from some books I have read. I enjoy it very much, as well as your mudlarking finds. Thank you for sharing.
Oh, thank you, I think that's quite a wonderful compliment. So many books are enjoyable just because of the voices that the authors managed to give their characters. 🙂
I like the calm rhythmic music that introduces the mysterious whispering mudlarker
Love your sense of humor.
Thanks 🙂
I metal detect in Toronto Canada, I have recently been fascinated by Bewicks history; My dad (Frank Riley) was born in Berwick 1921, he was schooled there, later he worked as a grave digger, later he served in WW2, after the war moved to Toronto Ontario Canada where I was born; I have always wondered about what Berwick was really like, he always described it as a tough place to grow up in, tough people, and not much else was said about it, his mother was a Postal worker. We would get the Berwick newspaper delivered to us in Toronto in the 1960s and 70s, the main stories in those papers (that I remember) would be weddings and parades.
I hope the Northern Mudlarks do come to visit you! You have that amazing bottle dump to explore again and maybe you can do a bit of fossil hunting by the sea if that's not too far. Great video as usual!
The bottle dump is about as far from the sea as it's possible to get in this country; though I do hope to get to some of the good fossil hunting spots on the coast this year. I hope that when they come to visit, the weather is good. The forecast is rain for the next fortnight. I'm glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Nothing better than watching a video with you, the northern mudlarks and Nicola White. I hope that you can do future collaboration videos. Thanks for sharing.
I think it is lovely that you are mudlarking with Northern Mudlarks. They are my favorite to watch besides you. I think the glass balls you found are Japanese net floats. We see them in the US in Alaska, Washington and Oregon quite often. Thanks for sharing your day with is.
Thanks Flo, it was so nice meeting them, and hopefully we'll get the opportunity to mudlark again together before too long. It would be quite something if the glass things were Japanese fishing floats, I'd be very curious about how they got there... I can't imagine they were brought by the current, since they were opened at the top, with the edges given a line of silicone sealant.
I love your music. It adds ambiance to your videos. You are getting better an better each video.
Thank you, there's still so much to learn and improve upon, but it's good to hear I'm improving. 🙂
I love seeing people getting less scared an learning more about making videos an watching them have fun with it. You just keep getting better an better in my opinion
What a lovely day out Tom thank you for taking us along . Xx🇮🇲
Those old soles looked pretty shifty. ...ha ha ha... Nice ramble in a lovely place, on an equally lovely day. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful, just wonderful
Thank you.🙂
I love your videos, I hope the Northern Mudlarks can visit you.
Thank you. I think they will visit sometime this year, no firm plans yet but the intent is there. And I'd like to go back up there this year too... there's a few spots I'd love to film at, and I'd be delighted if I could do so alongside the Northern Mudlarks. 🙂
I follow the Northern Mudlarks as well as others. I had seen the video with the glass bobble. I just had dinner last night at a spot that has that type of ornamentation hanging from the celling, as well as small Christmas lights. It is a narrow eatery that specializes in pizza, pasta, and meatballs. Their sauce and bread sticks is wonderful. A full meal for me. So I thought of them seeing the bobble. The glass shop on the island makes many types of them and so I have a few. I also have a Japanese fishing float from the 1910's that my mother found on a beach in Hawaii. So I don't think it is a fishing float. There is a man that goes out in Alaska and collects them by the burlap bag full. The northern Mudlarks are a wonderful pair. So nice to see a mother daughter team enjoying each others company.
I agree, it's wonderful seeing the Northern Mudlarks together... I don't think my mother would have enjoyed mudlarking with me; she probably would have enjoyed watching my videos though. The island glass shop sounds wonderful, I've still got a fond memory of visiting a glass blowing workshop as a child, and I'd love to give it a go one day. Your dinner spot too sounds pretty great. 🙂
Love the Northern Mudlarks! And you of course!
Can't wait for this next adventure.... need to get out and feel the weather blowing at my being.
Hi Tom you said what would be of interest to the northern mudlarkers from your area. Paste jars and the tiny bottles. They are always popping up in you videos and are interesting and pretty. Your narrative is as always lovely match to the vids.
Thanks Gayle, tentative plans exist for them to come here sometime in Spring/Summer, it will be interesting to see their video and whether the tiny bottles do enthrall them 🙂
Alas this is my 2nd viewing of this video and still most enjoyable. So many wonderful bridges, if only they could speak, what stories they keep😑thanx again. Cooped up in Michigan still, as you. 😰
I hope you carry on watching my videos and enjoying them for as long as I make them; but if you're running low there's quite a few other enjoyable youtubing mudlarking channels worthy of recommendation... have you tried Northern Mudlarks, Let's Go With The Johnsons, Si-Finds, Nicola White, Lucy's Larking Adventure, Mudlarking with Kit & The Caboodlers? Oh, and I have a new video that's just gone live 🙂
Another brilliant video Tom! Great to hear the Northern Mudlarks chatting away in the background. It looks like you had a lot of fun meeting up. That glass is beautiful, but so is that car lamp in its own way :) Great info too. Fancy using a castle to build a bridge!!!! Thanks for taking us along with you :)
I kinda do fancy it now... making a diarama of a bridge over a river, which is also a castle. 🙂 I'm sure you'll have a great time when you get to meet up with the Northern Mudlarks too, they're lovely and so are you both. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, and I'm glad to know you. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 I bet it would look beautiful. A real fairy tale scene! We are really looking forward to meeting the Northern Mudlarks :) Aw, thanks Tom. You are such a kind person. Looking forward to getting together for another mudlark/safari/jungle expedition with you :D
The twisted piece of metal looked like licorice. The glass ball could be (or could become) a witch's ball. All so interesting.
I like the Northern Mudlarks as well..nice finds
The glass ball is part of a garden decoration I have some that glow in the dark when left in the sun all day, very pretty though.
I never tire of listening to your soothing voice and interesting facts.
I was a bit distraught that you left a bit of pottery that looked exactly like a yacht! I would love to have found that to make a collage.
Hiya tom another wonderful trip, many thanks for the upload , just like we were there with you 👍🇮🇪
I LOVE the Northern Mudlarks! You’re in great company Tom!
Glad you like them, they're lovely people and it was a joy to spend time with them. 🙂
Beautiful video thank u Tom mudlarking with friends amazing finds have a great evening
Thank you Raima Mohommed, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you have a great evening too 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 my pleasure
Very interesting, love the arches on the old bridge ,
Your voice is so calming. Thank you for this.
Thank you, I'm glad you find it so. 🙂
Enjoyed immensely
Thank you, it was a glorious and very enjoyable day 🙂
Great video as always Tom. My husband heard your beautiful voice and assumed I was watching a documentary on TV, not a you tube video. Looking forward to your next adventure.
New to mudlarking world. I an very landlocked and found great joy in watching both videos
Thanks Mary. I too am landlocked, living in the middle of the UK... so most of my videos are in rivers and old dumpsites, I hope you can get enjoyment from them. I do visit the sea, and estuaries when I can, but it's not as often as I'd like.
Haha! I am laughing so much and I’ll tell you why Tom. Last Monday I was in Specsavers in Berwick for nearly two hours and when I came out I just needed some soul food by being on a beach so I just headed down West street and went down under the Old Bridge and spent 20 minutes picking up bits of glass and and an old children’s milk bottle and Lo and behold the exact piece of shoe sole that you picked up and discarded at 7.01. I am finding that hilarious! Hope you do too! 😊
Yep, that's pretty funny. I'm surprised the tide hadn't moved it further down in the three weeks since this was filmed. I'm glad you can get there for a bit of a mudlark when needed, it's a beautiful place to relax and recouperate. 🙂
This was beautiful to watch and listen to. Thank you so much for taking us along.
What fun Tom 😁 Great finds too. Maybe you can borrow some waders to get to that island next time
Thanks. I do have some waders now, I got them for Christmas, and though this was filmed just after Christmas, it was before they arrived. 🙂
Good idea to make friends with swans ☺🌼they can pinchy.
They're such beautiful birds, I don't think I'd mind if they told me to back off a bit. Haven't faced their wrath yet, so might be speaking rashly. 🙂
I (Gail) just had a thought - could the wood with a lead band be part of a wooden anchor stock? xx
If information about wooden anchor stocks being fitted with lead is on the internet, alas, it is not proving easy to find. I do think the idea makes sense, particularly where it was found; lead doesn't usually travel far. 🙂 Thanks Gail, and sorry it's taken me so long to get round to responding.
Might this help?
uw-archaeology.at.ua/_ld/0/10_Kapitan_G-Ancie.pdf
You and the northern mudlarks are my favorite! Glad y'all had a good day together💙
Thanks, they're lovely people, I'm not surprised they've become favourites of so many people so quickly. 🙂
Absolutely love your videos :)
The led and wood item was used for washing clothes.it had a much longer wooden poll and you would have a metal drum about the size of a beer keg .
Thanks, I think I know what you mean, and yes... it could well be. 🙂
Thank you Tom for another interesting and well put together video that is easy to watch.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. 🙂
I also played with a box of buttons as a child)
🙂 Better than most of my actual toys
Love the glass globe or fishing floater, thank you 😀
Enjoyed the video very much.
Another enjoyable outing wit you, for the finds and the history :)
I loved this video,those ladies are also a joy to watch.You with them together is even better.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that you like the Northern Mudlarks Channel too... Youtubing Mudlarkers is turning into a really nice community to be a part of. 🙂
The thing with the brine shrimp behind it is an farming disc for fitting ground for planting crops. Nice finds. Greetings from cassadaga N.Y. U.S.A. not far from lake ERIE shore.
It sure looked like that to me, also. Greetings from NE Ohio, about 30 miles from Lake Erie.
Thanks for the identification.🙂 I thought it might be something agricultural when I first spotted it, though I didn't know what exactly and I was at a loss as to how it got nearly to the center of the town.
Not far from lake Erie,can see Canada on a clear day.
I love the music it so suits xx
great finds Tom
What fun thank you for taking us along. HNY 2021 be good to Tom Burleigh and I adore the Northern Mudlarks. The glass bobble you gave them became a Christmas 🎄 tree ornament December 25, 2020. It was so generous of you! Happy Mudlarking
Happy New Year to you too, and I hope 2021 is a good year for you. I hope to be able to film again with the Northern Mudlarks sometime, they're lovely people, and I'm glad they liked the glass bauble enough to use it as a tree decoration. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 it warms my heart that you think of other mudlarkers to give your finds to. The Northern Mudlarks hailed you with such adoration. We all did a oooo-- ahhhhh! They were so lovely including us on their Christmas 🎄 Tree hanging.
Incredible as always Tom. 🙌💖
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Great video Tom, I love your voice and commentary on what you find and see. Thanks
Thank you. I'm glad you get so much enjoyment from what I do. 🙂
Thank you, lovely Vlog as always☮️🇨🇦
Thanks lovely Skull, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Over here across the pond, that glass ball would probably be a damaged Christmas ornament. Glass blowers/artists make them, and it would have come with a glass loop to attach your metal hanger to. As it is the weakest point, that would be the broken portion on your ball. You can find examples on US eBay with a search such as 'Glass Eye Studio'. Cheers!
Thank you, interesting company making some beautiful glass. These ones could well be something like the Christmas ornaments, they have roughly circular holes in the top, edged by Silicone Sealant, so could be a bodged craft project meant to turn baubles into something else. 🙂
I don't know what the iron around the wood was , but I see a statue for Easter Island, just turn it over. The ball is a float from Japan fishinng boats. They make then right on the boat when they loose some and need it for their nets. The different colors just means that they had to combine different colors to make sure they pulled in their nets and not some one else nets. I glad you gave the other one to kat , their Angels will love looking at it in the viewing window. Susann
Another wonderful video. Thank you Tom. Greatly appreciated
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Would like to see the Starship Troopers piece. Please do it. 😳😳😳
I'll add it to my craft project list. 🙂
Was quit funny as you picked up the comb I immediately thought of the movie Briefly thought it was part of a toy alien
I just ran a search, and there are figurines of the bug warriors... it really is pretty much spot on for the shape. 🙂
Awesome vid again tom. Treasures of all sorts. Worth several visits. 💖👌💖
Thanks Lisa. Yes, I think there's some excellent filming spots around there, and I'd like to go again when the days are a bit longer. 🙂
Thanks Tom ! Very interesting as usual.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Some lovely finds Tom! The glass baubles are beautiful!
Thank you 🙂
Some nice little finds, although the steel toecap is probably more modern, they definitely wouldn't have had safety boots in Victorian era!
Seeing all the small glass bit on the surface, I'm thinking there might be a proper bottle dump around there, might be worth having a few digs!
Edit - I also found the Northern Mudlarks channels, quite interesting, a similar style to yours.
I used to make sculptures out of copper wire and I would strip off the insulation. Sometimes it has toxic elements it's good to wear gloves and a mask. ☺
Thanks, I do tend to wear a mask, sometimes forget... so thanks for the reminder. 🙂
A bit late to the party, but I’ve only just found your channel and been playing catch-up working through your back catalog.
The large round metal disc with a hole in it looks a lot like a replacement disc for what we here in the states call a “disc harrow”, a piece of farm equipment pulled behind a tractor to loosen and prepare the soil for planting.
Lovely finds I’m curious to see some of your completed projects , tfs an enjoyable video tfs xx
Thank you. There's a few of my artistic pieces shown at the end of one of my videso (Post Industrial River Walking). And I am working towards starting a craft channel... slow going, but best current guess is sometime in Spring. 🙂
I live just over the border from Berwick and the river tweed and it’s estuary and beaches are where I love to mudlark/beach-comb...the mud tho is very sticky and that algae is a bugger to remove. Spittal point and beach (the ‘English’ side of the river) is gorgeous to find stones, pottery and seaglass on and the point is always shifting and changing so lots of driftwood too. I hope you all make it back here soon...I loved both yours and the Northern mudlarker’s videos.
Thanks fluffyspit... yes, that algae... it's certainly persistant. 🙂 I'd really like to head back North soonish, (when the days are quite a bit longer though)... head to Spittal point, Holy Island, maybe Ruby Bay and Queensferry; and anytime the Northern Mudlarks fancy meeting up I'd be happy to film alongside them, and maybe feature them a bit more.
The glass thing with blue in it looks like Van Gogh's "Starry night")
Nice music and scenes
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed both. 🙂
Love the glass float, I only find plastic ones...another relaxing video x
I think it might become the eye of a large papier mache dragon one day. 🙂
Great video ❤️🇦🇺 xxx
Those ladies are the mother/daughter duo Northern Mudlarks
Yes, they're lovely people, it was wonderful to meet them and spend a few hours wandering a beautiful place with them. 🙂
as always tom brilliant larking you need that detector mate that would have been a great hunt all the best pal i was itching when i saw it was tidal
Yeah, the Northern Mudlarks had a bit of a metal detect when I'd gone, and they found a fired musket ball; someone we met along the way had found a cannon ball. I think there's some good things to find there. 🙂
Thank you Tom, you have such a soft gentle voice. It reminds me of a a saying,
"Beware of loud and vexatious people", which you are not.
It seems a bit more challenging to search the rivers , away from the big cities, the results are still diverse and interesting.
Fortunately, Britain, for the most part, respects ancient ruins. Here in the states, although we've improved.
Many historic structures and places have been razed or buried in tribute to "modern" advancements.
Thank you ever so much.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Thanks Rik, sadly I think the UK has had a poor history of respecting history in the last few centuries too; we've lost a lot.... thankfully we still have a lot. Yes, mudlarking is quite different outside of London, I think we have to cover more ground to get good results... with a few exceptional places (like the dump site I visit). That said, I don't actually have experience of mudlarking in London, yet... so I shouldn't draw any rash conclusions. I'm glad you like my voice, and enjoy my videos.
Cheers,
Tom
@@tomburleigh9261 NIcola White was the one who introduced me to you, indirectly, and your knowledge was impressive.
Mudlarking the Thames is like shopping in a major market, so much stuff that it becomes overwhelming.
Your areas of searching allow deeper focus. You are all history detectives and are preserving the past.
Thank you for your kind reply,
Cheers,
Rik
From their perspective, they were up-cycling that castle into something more productive and necessary I imagine. A beautiful structure...I have a soft spot for bridges. Thank you for the squelch through the mud on our behalf.
I don't think they actually used the stone from the castle; I didn't see anything obvious in the structure that looked the same the colour as the stone in the remaining Castle walls. If they'd built the bridge 100ft to the west, the only demolition needed would be a section of the boundary wall to allow a roadway to the town... but yes, they probably did think they were up-cycling at least the land that the castle occupied. Sadly that's all too common in English history, there were some beautiful buildings in my nearest city; knocked down in the 60's to build hideous concrete monstrosities, (and I do appreciate that concrete buildings can be beautiful, it's not a blanket dismissal). I have a soft spot for bridges too... I love being beneath them so much I might be part troll. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 A picture of you emerges... I should draw a portrait of Tom Burleigh the troll.
@@sylwiaj.4386 I'd love to see something it if you do 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 and you shall :-)
@@tomburleigh9261 instagram.com/p/B_kLPsjgnk7/? not the best photo..its dark and the light is giving the paper background a pink tinge. Still...well overdue.
Another great video Tom, thank you ☺
Love your info on the bridges and castle although it is so sad about the castle 😔. I've always loved castles, I think their amazing and beautiful ❤.
Thanks again for sharing and have a great week 😊
Thanks Deb, I'm glad you enjoyed it, sad bit included, and I hope you have a great week too 🙂
That bridge! I live near the Ohio River, and there’s nothing like that here! Starship Troopers!!! Cracked me up! Again, thanks for sharing the adventure!
I agree, it was a beautiful bridge. I know of some other wonderful bridges I'd like to film beneath too... I think I might be turning into a bit of a troll. 🙂
The swirled blue glass ball may be the water holder of a plant waterer. It had a glass tube attached to the ball you found that was inserted into your plant's soil and it self watered till empty.
loved the video tom was looking forwould to this one must have been a fab day
Thanks, it was a great day. The weather was perfect, the company lovely, and the site was very photogenic. Downside was I had to go catch a train before dark. Will have to go back there sometime and stay a few days.🙂
Tom: Your dry wry commentary perfectly matches your mellow voice. I much enjoyed this adventure as well as the guitar instrumentals.
Thank you, that's a lovely complement 🙂
The big disc with square hole in it looks like a farm disc from an implement used to smooth the plowed field . In US called disking the field Thanks Tom
Thanks Joseph. I hope you're having a nice day 🙂
Lots of lovely finds, and scenery. The bridge and history was wonderful. The loss of a piece of irreplaceable castle is truly sad.
Thanks Coni, I agree, there have been some terribly sad losses of historic monuments due to engineering developments😔
I live in Virginia. The history here is not so deep but I am saddened each time I see a lovely old home or historic place denigrated or demolished. I do love the history I've learned from my trips to Scotland. In 2018 I was very close to Berwick on Tweed. It was getting dark so my common sense kicked in and said no. Had to get back to my lodging in one piece west of Edinburgh. I'm hoping a trip in the planning for Sept 2021 comes to fruition. The Borders are the main destination with a stay at Scott's mansion.
Lynne Rodgers Wishing you luck and hoping you get to make that trip. Enjoy
I have several swirly glass baubles like the ones you found, tho mine might be thicker- hard to tell from just a video view. They have a glass twist which allows them to be hung and admired at a window with sunlight shining through.
This was truly a lovely day with lovely companions! Thank you, as always, for sharing your travels and observations, Tom. ; )
Thanks EB A, these glass things had roughly circular holes in the top, edged with Silicone Sealant, I guess they might have been a DIY craft project, where someone cut the twists off for some reason. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, it was indeed a very lovely day. 🙂
I believe the glass balls are fish net floats. They look to be the same size as the ones in my collection.
The metal disc with the square hole is a disc from a farm plough
Thank you 🙂 I thought it might be something agriculture related.
Round thing with a square hole is a disc blade, used for disking fields.
I enjoyed this having already seen Gail and Alex's offering of the same day! It is lovely to know that mudlarkers I follow on RUclips get together like a secret society! Such fun hearing them in the background.... I would like to see your "Starship Troopers" creature if you should create one, one day!
the glass ball looks like a fisherman's float