Picking up what the River dropped. An after flood-water beach-combing adventure.
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Back at my commonly visited spot, which is uncommonly good after the rains have brought the river to the brink of flooding; the little beach beneath the weir gets a fresh covering of new old things for me to find.
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Tom your filming,narration and content has a poetic quality about it.You are heaps better than all the shouty dross on TV, just love your channel, it’s like a warm comfortable blanket we can wrap ourselves in!
Thank you, that's a lovely complement 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 I agree totally with Milly. I can barely stand TV anymore.
This is my idea of a day well spent. Relaxing, great way to unwind...literally therapeutic.
Yep, mudlarking is one of my favourite ways to relax. I enjoy watching mudarking videos for that too, just never my own.
I get so much happiness from frolicking around with you dear.
I was really happy that you found the heron's head. Such a nice walk this September day, a soothing mudlarking adventure. Thank You for taking us along!
Thanks smartoldlady, I'm always glad if you enjoy my videos. 🙂
Another excellent video, Tom. Thank you for getting us out with you!
Thanks Karen, I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
I watch Tom's videos when I want to chill
Thanks, I hope they continue to work for you in this way 🙂
Me too
A raft made from pipe stems, perhaps? as an escape for a sinking Popeye? 😂 See, - your videos take viewers on a complete flight of fancy! Thank you Mr Burleigh.
Thank you, they're some pretty cool suggestions 🙂
Tom, this was a wonderful lark! Your heron, complete with head, is an awesome find, quite incredible for both pieces to be found so close together. I so enjoy the peace and tranquility, as well as the natural beauty, evident in your walks. An enjoyable trip, well done!
Thanks Cynthia, I'm still amazed by what washes up on that little beach. Hopefully one day I'll track down the place it's all coming from. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Watching while relaxing in bed before I go to sleep. Tom, your voice is so soothing. Love the vid.! Thank you. Goodnight 😴
I so appreciate a good night's sleep, so I hope my videos help you to get that. 🙂
Thanks for taking me along on this adventure. I'm totally in love with the ASMR-inducing-tongue-in-cheek-stream-of-consciousness narration. Subbed!
Thanks Lisa, 🙂I'm glad you get a ASMR response. I'm going to be doing an ASMR Audiobook channel soon too, when I get organised, I shall be deploying a deeper, darker voice sometimes there too.
Tom I wish you could show us your crafts you make I would so love to see them someday. ☺🐈🍀🐸
I've been planning on doing some craft videos for a long time. It's been put on hold for the time being, because I'm in lock-down away from home, and away from my craft materials and tools. But... nothing is for ever, and I hope to be able to do something eventually. 🙂
Lovely...my lunch break video. All the lovely treasures; still amazes me as our rivers' edge have nothing but rocks, mud and sand. Never seen anything like your stomping grounds. Thank you for another brief bit of rapture.
Thanks Maureen, what a wonderful comment. I'm amazed too by how much I find sometimes, I've learned so much about the local area through doing this. 🙂
Hello from Norway. You are the best Tom , I am always looking forwards to Your next film .
Thanks Ørnulf Aasen, I don't like to think of myself as the best, but I'm glad some people think so. 🙂
Aaah! Now I am completely relaxed! Thanks for the. Lovely video! I was going to suggest creating a herons head and beak from a pipe with a stem and lo and behold you found the head! The magic of the river beach giveth!
It is indeed, a most magical river beach. I always find a surprising amount there. I'm glad you found this visit to it relaxing. 🙂
I about cheered when you found the heron's head, and I really like it as is, all covered in scungy decay; there's just something abstract, yet organic about it.
Thanks, I like it as it is too... but I have to re-attach the head at least and find somewhere for it to go. 🙂
Fantastic another interesting vid. I'm so happy. The tool may be an awl. A tool for making holes in various materials or to make existing holes larger.
Thanks Gayle, I hadn't thought of an awl, and I have one. 🙂
I'm so glad all the wotsits came together to reunite the heron with the head!
Thanks Queegueg Hawkins 🙂
Thank you once again for a lovely outing. I really enjoyed the haze of the overcast day, peaceful. And such interesting finds. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Lynn, I'm enjoying mudlarking in all weathers now, just whenever I can get out... so there should be more overcast, and rainy videos , maybe even frosty and snowy ones eventually. 🙂
i think your brass come metal end rod is drain rod for unblocking drains from bulgaria fantastic video thank you
i agree
Thank you. I thought that was a possibility too, particularly as I have one of those in the shed... though the one in the shed is made with a much more flexible wood so I wasnt' confident. 🙂
What a lovely grey day complete w/ interesting finds such as I might have plucked from the sandy bit had I been the one searching! And that's quite amazing you found the heron head! My most remarkable 2-part find was of a large, colorful German internal swirl marble, broken, and softened by the waves at the mouth of a river where it met the Chesapeake Bay. I found another chunk of it about a month later. Another curious 2-part find was certainly unrelated bits. The first, a small mold for a lead soldier, found in Maine in an old shed when I was a child. 40 years later, when preparing an attic in Maryland for painting, I found a soldier that fit perfectly- between the floor boards. The house was from the mid 1800's. It's always quite something when this happens. Well done!
Amazing two-part finds, thanks for telling me about them. 🙂
Enjoyed watching you find all your treasures, lovely relaxing video.
Thanks Nancy 🙂
“ Ah a pipe stem,free of noodle,I’ll take it!” 😂😂😂
Pesky noodles! Another lovely outing thanks Tom
Thanks Karen, I'm sure those noodles were keeping me away from some good finds. Hopefully they'll have gone about their business by the time I go back there. 🙂
So many pieces of river glass and so well tumbled too! All those pottery pieces too! I suspect Caroline would have clapped her hands with glee had she been there! I saw something blue in amongst the blackberry plant i hope you saw it as well. Did you have a hard time carrying all those finds back to the car? Must weigh quite a bit. It is a muscle building hobby. Great video, love it. Tammy🌻
Hi Tammy, yep... I saw the blue thing, and got it out too; plastic 😕 I do fancy taking Caroline and Phil there one day, but the access is a bit difficult sometimes. For this outing, I might have possibly squeezed myself under a gate into an industrial yard to get around the back of the building; perhaps against what the signs said were the rules... shhh.. don't tell anyone. 😉 I didn't have the car with me that day, so yes, it was tough getting them home, about 3 miles with a big hill involved. Glad you enjoyed the results 🙂
That is such a lovely beach to unwind and relax while looking for treasures. Thanks for the walk Tom :)
Thanks Emma, I agree, it's one of my favourite spots. 🙂
At 22:10, Phil and I think it could be a chimney sweep or sewer rod. A great mudlark and that metal heron .... what a find!!!!!!!
Thanks Caroline, I have a sewer rod in a shed, and the rod part is much more flexible than the one I found. You're still quite likely right, but perhaps it predates the common use of whatever material the one I've got is made of. 🙂975, so close... maybe just one more video. 😊
Great video Tom. The scenery is so beautiful. thanks for another soothing mudlark.💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦💦💧💦💧💦
Thanks Marina, I'm glad you enjoyed it so much 🙂
The spikey wooden thing could be the remains of a shooting stick......without the seat.
Thanks Shirley, that's certainly a good suggestion and a real possibility 🙂
Another wonderful collection, a treasure trove of oddness. The heron was fab, awesome vid as always. Look forward 2 all your vids n love 2 think that they will be included in some of your pieces of art.
Thanks Lisa, I agree, lots of oddness in this one... one of the most fun larking adventure days I've had so far. 🙂
Lovely,lovely walk. Beautiful wildflowers and herons,( both of them). That wine bottle that you found could be an onion bottle. Sorry that those aggressive noodles didn’t let you take that stem. But I enjoyed the walk. Thank you.
I'd love to find an onion bottle one day. I'm glad you enjoyed the walk, and thankyou for such positive feedback. 🙂
Fantastic ❤️
Thanks 🙂
As always brilliant upload, thanks for taking us along with you 👍🇮🇪
Thanks Sid. Not every episode will be brilliant, some will merely be OK, some perhaps might even be bad. I'm glad you enjoyed this one though. 🙂
Thankyou for sharing. I wonder if you threaded wire through bits of pipe stem you could make pipe figure people? A broken pipe bowl might make a head.
Thanks Sarah, I think I will give that a try. 🙂
Tom, I was pleasantly surprised today with another of your beautiful videos. Looking forward to more.
Thank you, the next one is due sometime tomorrow. 🙂
The crane is going to be stunning, I'm sure. The pointed stick with the iron is for picking up trash maybe? We call it a gig. Here it is used to spear flat fish (flounder) along the coastal shores. The pipe stems can be strung on sterling wire with a pretty glass/natural stone bead and made into earrings or a necklace. Unfortunately, we do not have access to stems here in the U.S. Just the bowls. I have a few bowls that were made in Savannah Georgia before the civil war, and a couple that are native made. I love the figurine, but bet that will not be its final incarnation. I enjoy your videos as they are calming and easy to understand. Thank you for such a fun video again!
Thanks Mary, I hadn't thought of mixing the pipe stems with glass beads, such an obvious option really. I'm going to check through my river glass box for likely looking bits. Native and pre-civil war pipe bowls are excellent finds 🙂 The pointed stick is, I think, probably unlikely to be for litter picking, too much work went into the brass piece for such a lowly (but noble) function; and there aren't any flat fish in these rivers... not to say that it's not something similar, I think it might be. Other suggestions include a sewer cleaning rod, and an old style tent pole. I'm glad you enjoyed this outing 🙂
Perhaps a wind chime made of pipe stems?
Worth a try, I do have the materials. Thanks 🙂
So good such awesome pick ups there was something cobalt blue in the bush where you found the pocket knife....Thanks for sharing your lark best thing I’ve done all day it’s dreary here today too (Mt Vernon Indiana USA)👍🏻💕
Thanks, I do love that little beach; it's always a surprise how much variety of things I can find there. I always miss something, though I believe the cobalt blue thing was some broken glass..🙂
Hi Tom, great video, thanks for sharing! I think the wooden shaft with the ?brass? ferrule is part of an old drain rod kit or maybe used for sweeping chimneys? The little bunch of flowers that you suggested may be a handcrafted brooch, I think, could be from a ladies hat, possibly dating to the 1920s or 30s. What you originally thought was a piece of antler, is a plastic/resin branch, that would have been used as aquarium 'furniture' perhaps for someone's pet goldfish. These can still be purchased today from some pet shops.
Please take care in these troubled times mate. All the best Louie :)
Thanks for the ID's Louie, you may well be right on the brooch, I think I remember seeing similar long ago, on the hat of an old lady. 🙂 I thought the same about the brass on the end of a wooden shaft; my father has a drain rod kit that it reminded me of... but those are made of bamboo for flexibility; this is hardwood... and the iron bit remaining isn't something that his drain rod's have. Someone pointed me in the direction of a WWII german army ice pick; and the brasswork at least looks to be an exact match.
Thanks your your well wishes too... I hope you and your family can get through it safe and well too.
Those bits of pipe stem would make a nice native Indian choker necklace,or a bracelet Tom if all cut to the same size 😀
Thanks Mandy, if I ever get around to doing something with them, a bracelet is probably top of the list of likely projects 🙂
A fellow mudlarker made wind chimes out of them with brass (lamp?) pieces for the top and a windcatcher and something glass for the "dinger" among the pieces hanging down, strung with nylon fish line tied to a metal nut to keep the pipe pieces in place nut o===========------------------------------} top
Mundane, perhaps, but pretty with the brass pieces polished and made a pleasing sound.
Great expedition! Loved tagging along and listening to your narrative. You have a really good eye. With all the wonderful things you picked up, I think my favorite was the plastic squirrel! It looked really cute sitting on that chiseled piece of whatever that was. Thanks, Tom!!!
Thanks Darlene, the plastic squirrel is now attatched to the top of a fence post in the garden, and the real squirrels don't trust it. 😃
Wow, I found your video a complete and wonderful surprise! Your voice, the water and the interesting bits made, for me, a relaxing and fun tag along experience. Thank you! :-)
Thanks Karen, I'm glad you found so much to enjoy in it. 🙂
This was the most enjoyable exploration you've shared so far. The scenery was so calming. I was surprised at how many treasures you found on this one beach. So happy for you. Would you tell me please. Is this area in Wales or England. Just curious. Thank you again for sharing your adventure with us. I look forward to the next one.
Thanks Debbra, I'm always surprised by how productive this one little beach is too, I'm hoping to track down the source of it all before the end of the year. This site is in West Yorkshire, England. 🙂
Nights drawing in Tom x
Yep, hopefully that won't stop me getting out and filming too much... I'll just have to change the time of day I go. 🙂
Tom I love your video's your the best!🐱😍🐺
Thanks Mj Mj 🙂
Hope my comments, some of which might seem odd, do not bother you. And i really spent nearly a year in Bournemouth studying English. For i was young and dumb and did not speak any English i did not enjoy people, who i couldn't talk to, so much, but i trully loved the country which was exactly what i imagined reading books by English wrighters.
Of course not Constantine, I am glad to have your comments coming from Russia, which I hope to visit one day and have imagined too from reading books. 🙂
it is unusual now walkley clogs has gone passed it for years on that road going to work river detecting this week lets see what the high waters brought down you never know and that is the adventure of it all
Yeah, it's quite a stark absence coming around that corner... something that was there all the time I've lived here, so suddenly gone. Have you had much success with river detecting?
@@tomburleigh9261 hello tom did brearley field 1 month ago in the river with my garrett at but there was a heavy flow so did a few hours and came back lots of old pottery shards as you know but on land recently have had some intersting ww1 cap badges an other pre war bits with detector fancy doing like aquachigger and do rivers a bit more but utilising the full depth of the detector with my pinpointer because there will be good bits in the rivers years ago there would have been lots of charcoal burners trading all along the banks
@@sprayzzz5545 Excellent, good to know there are other treasure hunters finding things in the area. I have a beginner's metal detector because I really fancied trying 10 years ago, got permission for my neighbours land which alternated between being swamped with trash finds and finding nothing, I didn't get any further... but the idea of river detecting has made me enthusiastic again, and I'd love to expand into some of the other disciplines like detecting while snorkeling, and magnet fishing. I knew the charcoal burners were opperating up in Hardcastle craggs area since about the 10th century, were they working on the Calder too?
Ha! I ALWAYS call out things for you to pick up LOL 😆! Great find i.e. the heron’s head!
I do imagine people doing so, even while not picking some of those things up 🙂
The heron is amazing and to find the head! Is that the mega bottle beach because if it is it is the rather interesting things beach too! (sorry that sentence barely made sense!) :)
The sentence made perfect sense to me 🙂No, this little beach is in a neighbouring valley, the mega bottle beach theoretically should have interesting things to find too... it was a regular crossing spot for the Brigantes tribe, and later, Roman legions... I just haven't found anything truly old there yet.
Great video Tom..........also good to see you out and about with The Johnsons!
Thanks Sally, the Johnsons are lovely people to spend some time with, and I've got lots of footage to edit from our 4 mudlarking outings together so far. 🙂
Let go, noodle - let go!! Tom - I love your narration and hunts for treasure. Your soothing voice and your way of describing all the interesting items make me way happier than they should!
Thank you, making people happy while watching my videos is really a lot of the hope behind making them 🙂
Could also tell you about those flowers, which are partially himalayan balm and the mushroom, but too lazy to to search for latin names. By the way, those balm flowers are surprisingly pale in color in England. Here in Moscow area they are bright pink or crimson.
They vary in colour here, we have dark pink (not quite crimson) all the way to white. They're not bad eating, balsam flowers.. quite a gentle and pleasant taste, just have to check before picking that they don't contain a bee. 🙂
Thankyou Tom, a lovely video, was lovely larking with you.
Thanks Angie, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
I fell into your channel and I must say, what a comfortable landing. Love your soft voice. So interesting.
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. 🙂
Hello Tom, Is love to see the craft items you make. Thank you for your videos, such different fossicking than we do here in Australia.
I do have quite a few craft videos planned; sadly they're on hold for the time being as I'm in lock-down away from home. I hope to do some as soon as I'm able to go home, but that might be several months. Fossicking in Australia seems like something I'd enjoy. 🙂
Fantastic finds , I really do need to move near a river like yours or to a remote coast up north . I talk to you through out the video .
Remote coast up North would be a dream for me too. I do sometimes imagine what people might be saying to me, I hope it wouldn''t usually be someone telling me I should pick up something I don't fancy. 😃
@@tomburleigh9261 could you show us what you do with that metal heron please .
@@janecharlton6780 Yes, but I have a huge project list at the moment, and it's quite far down so might be a long while... long enough that you'll have forgotten about it. I won't forget though.
@@tomburleigh9261 Lols no problem I can wait .
That reminds me of the time when i lived in Bournemouth. I saw the start of the demolition of Hazelwood Hotel. That was a long time ago)
farm9.static.flickr.com/8241/8538153466_1df71a6efd_b.jpg - This was what i saw in 2001
It's always a bit sad when a beautiful building comes down. I vaguely remember visiting bournemouth sometime about 1990, I think that hotel was stilin use, and still looking good.
I think the 'mysterious thing' is an old fashioned tentpole from an old-fashioned canvas Scout tent.
That's certainly been the guess of a few people, and it may well be right. I'm leaning more towards the spike end of the handle of a WW2 German army Ice Pick though... which is a dead ringer for it, and makes the finding of the bayonette pommel so close to it more interesting.
Thank you from down Under...we have nothing of that antiquity to lark for so I really enjoy your larking.
Thanks Jenesis Jones, I'm constantly surprised by how much there is to find here. Sorry you don't have similar down there, I'd probably want to prospect for Gold or Opal if I lived in Australia, but they're so much harder to find than the easy pickings I've got here. 😕
Great video
Thanks todtiger 🙂
Hi Tom! I thoroughly enjoyed this latest adventure. I’ve had an awful week, and have managed to get some kind of sniffles, so seeing you find that heron body and then the head made me forget about my sore throat and marvel at the way sometimes the universe gets our attention. Thanks for a fun walk, and hope to see you again soon!!
Sorry your week was so bad, I'm glad my video gave you a temporary reprieve but I hope in general your health has recovered and this week is far from awful. 🙂
Pipe stems if you can cut them into shorter pieces would make good beads for a good necklace👍 just a thought.
Thanks bodge6886, I'm going to try that sometime, probably mixed in with river glass beads so it doesn't look too much like Native American cultural appropriation. 🙂
river or sea glass are hard to find around here but so common there, that you pass them over........ maybe wind chimes can be made with the pipe stems
I generally pick up the riverglass if it's nicely smoothed, I'm planning all sorts of little projects to use it in. The pipe stems, unfortunately, don't have much of a chime to them. 🙂
Another great video Tom...looking forward to a winter wonderland special soon ....
Thanks chrisfieldaselvis, I'm hoping I've got some better camera gear by then, I filmed a lark in the snow last winter, and it came out so bad I didn't upload it.
Another great video my friend keep up the good work and I'll keep watching I see you got a lot of nice stuff but she that bird be nice when you bring that back so if you could show it in the future when you fix it
Thanks Phil, sure, I'll show the bird again when I've restored/altered it... quite a long way down my project list though, so will be a while. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Like all the bits of glass make a nice mosaic x
Thanks, that's one of the projects I have in mind for them 🙂
another great film tom . do you voiceover your films or are they all recorded live
I'm sure they're voiced over..there's no distortion by the wind.
@@slydoll7877 yeah toms voice is always crisp an clear i thought maybe an excellent mike or voiceover
Yep, mostly voiceover in this video. I do try to do live as much as possible, but when the river or the wind is above a certain decibel level, it clashes with the mid-range of my voice, and cancels me out. Not much I can do about it, though I am looking at getting a better microphone set-up so the range of conditions I can do it live in is bigger. . 😕
Great video and truly appreciate the improved voice level Thank you for sharing
Thanks prinz albert, I do struggle with balancing the volumes, I'm glad I got it right for this video and hope I can repeat it in future. 🙂
Cool Tom hangman 1128 channel original forest he found some petrified stuff 👍
I'm quite sceptical of his wilder conspiracy based videos, but it is an interesting channel, thanks. 🙂
The Handle With The Brass tip maybe not a fire poker but maybe a frog gig
Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of Frog gig's before. I think it's a fair contender for what it was. 🙂
Hi. Nice video. Amazing what you find. I believe the flowers are wild orchids. There are lots but a google will soon tell. Cheers
Thanks Bruce, I'll have a look. I know there are some wild orchids around here, just didn't expect the possibility of them being on that beach.
@@tomburleigh9261 looks like himalayan balsam!
Hi Tom,
No worries anytime.
Kind Regards
Nick
🙂
At 8:22 a very curious piece of glass just at the base of the red brick 🙂
Do you mean the white thing in front of the brick? It's the edge of a plate, pottery rather than glass. 🙂
Tom Burleigh , yes it’s hard to tell from the video on my phone but it looks interesting with the arches and dots 🙂
Really love your videos !
I dream of coming there and exploring one day 🙂
but sadly Mississippi is too far away ....
I love your videos. Have you ever thought about showing some of your pieces of art work?
Thanks... I have shown a few pieces at the end of one of them, and a work in progress figurine on another. But aside from that, yes, I'm planning a new youtube channel with just art and craft projects, start to finish. 🙂
That weeping willow over the water at 1:14 was gorgeous ❤️
Yes, I love that tree, I've thought it gorgeous most of the times I've passed it. 🙂
I most certainly am shouting out when I spot things Tom. I’m sure you’d tell me to shut up if you could actually hear. With all those pieces of pipe stem, you will soon have the worlds longest pipe! What a wonderfully productive beach. Looking forward to next time.
Alas, that beach might not be productive for long; it's all shut off now for flood defence works and there will be considerable changes. Still, I found some decent stuff on my last visit which I absulutely didn't sneak around the barriers at all to do... video will come eventually, after 7 or 8 other ones I've stacked up ready for winter. I'm glad you're so vocal, it's fun for me imagining the audience shouting for me to pick up what they've spotted 🙂
Tom Burleigh a real shame about the changes to the beach and I’m sure you would absolutely never sneak around barriers..... looking forward to the next videos already 👍🏻
Wonderful finds! You had a good day mudlarking! That handle looks like bone! Beautiful patterns on the china shards, and not sure what the big piece with the worn nitch is, but I would clean it up and possibly use it to grind herbs, you were all around the wild plant mugwort! I just finished dehydrating about 3 gallon bag of it just yesterday!, Not sure of the flowers, I will have to look those beauties up!
Thanks Debra. I've got a huge bag of dehydrated mugwort too 🙂Not sure I'm that keen on drinking it as a tea though, any other suggested ways to take it?
@@tomburleigh9261 I am thinking about making a ticture of it, using wine instead of vodka. There are many Oriental dishes made with it, but I would have to look them up. You can dry and crumble it into stews as well or breads a friend of mine adds it too her sauteed onions and mushrooms.
Nice Job finding the herring and its head. Cant repeat that in a hundred years. Nice hunting. Thank you for sharing
Thank you. But it'd be a very strange day on earth if no extraordinary coincidence happened to someone... million to one chances happen quite often when the possibilities of what happens next tends towards the infinite. 🙂
Quite the collection today. Enjoyed this thoroughly.
Thank you, I do like that little beach... it usually gives me a good range of things to find. 🙂
Tom I see you had another fine day out finding treasure in the mud. Thanks for sharing ☺️
Any day out finding treasure in mud is a fine day 🙂I'm glad you enjoyed watching along.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the item at 13:00 was that it could be the bottom end of an alpenstock or something very similar but more lightweight. The steel spike would deteriorate much quicker than the brass collar. Whatever it is it's a nice find. Cheers 👍🏼
Thanks Mick, I hadn't thought of that as an option, but you could well be right... I found one quite similar on Google Images, and that one was 2nd world war era German army equiptment, which would be a surprising coincidence if the bayonet pommel was also German. War trophies perhaps, thrown away and eroded into the river at the same time. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 That's exactly what I was thinking, Tom. 👍🏼
Thank you for translating and taking my American ears along on your wonderful treasure hunt!
Thanks Dree, I'm glad I didn't come across as patronising, we share a lot of language but there are some strange dissonances. Glad too you enjoyed the video 🙂
🐝Nice finds, it was fun seeing you out with the Johnsons, interesting place thanks for showing us around🐝
The two figurines put together are hilarious 😂
Thanks Misty Mint, I'm much slower at editing than Caroline (she enjoys editing!), and just about to start editing the first video from one of our outings together. 🙂
Hi Tom, Lovely little adventure. I think that piece of wood with the brass collar & pointy bit of iron the end might well be an old fashioned tent pole from an old canvas tent. Seem to remember seeing them like that, probably when I was in the Brownies.
Ah, thank you. That's a more interesting possibility than the sewer pipe cleaner some people have suggested. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 Those old fashioned tents did not have attached groundsheets. The pointy bit stuck into the ground, which helped to keep everything in place.
Dear Mr. Burleigh: Thank you from The Garland’s in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, for the lovely Mudlarking adventure!!! I especially enjoy listening to your commentary as you walk along or find things to take. I love the landscape and scenery. I look forward to watching your channel and it is a highlight of my day, especially during the COVID lock down. Thank you all your effort and hard work - It is truly appreciated. Take care, and stay safe. Mrs. Wendy Garland
Glad to see you back Tom. Love this video. I would love to go mudlarking with you next time I’m in the UK. Keep up the great job
Thanks Beth, I do mudlark occasionally with other people, so if you're likely to be in the area (West Yorkshire) do let me know. 🙂
I enjoy your filming but not your narrations, It's just a shame you don't have an appreciation of history without the judgment.
Thanks. I need to be a bit judgemental about what I take, I have limited room to store things, and limited energy to carry things... and I live in a place so full of history I have to pick and choose.
Or, have I misunderstood what you've said?
Is the two objects for planting bulbs?
Unsure. The brass bit on the end of a stick looks very much like part of a WW2 German army ice pick handle... the other things, remain mysterious. 🙂
What a bottle bonanza! Lovely stream, love the mossy rocks. Its shameful how the holes are left, an animal could fall in and not get out😰kudos to you for your cleanups. Nice relaxing visit 👍👌 put my ear buds in, your voice and the water... Ahhhhh😌
I had a wonderful time, as usual! Loving the metal heron - great find with the head! Also the pipes...so love the clay pipes! Ah, and the sweet squirrel, looks wonderfully mischievous to me...I'm sure she'll find a loving home with your other rescues! Til next time, take care! xx ~Jen
The squirrel is in the garden now on top of a fence post, the local squirrels seem mildly bemused. Glad you enjoyed the video; hopefully I'll catch up on the comments soon and it I won't be answering your next one a week late 🙂 Till next time, which sigh, is now live and I'm nowhere near caught up... take care - Tom. 🙂
Could be wrong, but that that mystery piece of wood, iron and copper looks familiar. It looks like a center stake from a WWII US Army pup tent. My Dad had a bunch of surplus he picked up while working at Treasure Island near San Francisco after the end of the war. The guys coming back from Alaska and leaving the services left behind enormous amounts of outdoor equipment. He picked up wonderful down mummy bags, several pup tents and all kinds of camping gear which we used for years. My sister and I loved playing in the pup tents on the lawn in the summer. I learned to set it up when I was about 6-7 years old. So that's my guess and the reason for the guess. Could be wrong. . .
I could go on for hours watching and hearing you... i crave this moment all day... yet, we could go mudlarkibg topetes and never find The same Stuff. I believe that you missed a doll face at 18h32? Top left, black face doll... could it be? In May country reverso are too clean to find all that... bits of pottery, glass and fossiles... and pre-historical finds if you know what to look for ... nothing more. If you find so many remains like that, they open a museum... really Nice to watch you.
Great finds!! I love marbles too. Don’t know how you can pick them out of all the rubble. Keep searching. Happy New Year
I am truly amazed to see the number of positive comments that you have received from your growing number of adherents. You bring us along and we obviously enjoy what you do and the effort you take to produce very interesting videos. All the positive comments are well deserved . Your style of delivery is superb. Cheers from Bob in Adelaide, South Australia
Cheers Bob, I'm pretty amazed by the volume of positivity that comes towards me too. It sometimes gets a bit much for my introvert sensibilities, but I do enjoy mudlarking so I'll continue. 🙂
Would someone please tell me the story of the cod bottles. Thank you.
Hi Inquisitive Gina, the wikipedia page for them is pretty good: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle
Hi Tom,
The long piece of wood with the brass on the end is from 1937 pattern webbing equipment(British Army) entrenching tool handle.
Kind Regards
Nick
Thanks Nick, I'd narrowed it down to something similar; with the closest I actually found being a German army Ice shovel/pick. It's good to have a better identification 🙂
Chow mein 😂 I love the pottery shards!
Thanks, I do too; got enough now for a mozaic for 10. 🙂
I think it might be American Indian stoneware?
That would be quite something if it was... but there's no record of American Indians visiting the UK. Possible I guess that someone brought some over, and then disposed of it; but it's slim possibility.
Great. ! Thank you Tom !
Thanks, such positive reactions make me smile 🙂
Someday a mudlarker is going to explain the joy of vulcanite bottle stoppers. I understand the glass and ceramic ones as they are visually attractive, but the love of the the vulcanite stoppers is a mystery to me. Is it because they can be dated if they have a mark? This is a wonderful walk. Thank you so much. Love the gray day pastel colors. And exciting finds.
Sat down to watch another of your videos I had not seen. My cat, Baby came to sit with me and I ended up clipping her nails while she was calm. Was it your voice coming through my phone that calmed her? I don't know, but by the time I was done you were showing us what you had found. So I went back and watched it in ernest. Tonight I will leave it play on the nightstand. I'll listen to your voice and the rushing water, visualize what I watched you find and drift off to sleep.
I know that I am not alone when I say that you've been a huge help during the isolation of the covid19 pandemic. It looks as though America will be fighting this scourge for some time since many resist anything scientists tell us to do to keep it from spreading. So, keep the videos coming as long as it is safe for you to do.
First time viewer ... love your narration.
Thank you 🙂