Mudlarking The Thames: Our Best Find Ever?
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2019
- This week we made another visit to the Thames foreshore for a spot of mudlarking. There were many hazards involved but we prevailed and found possibly the best thing we have ever found (well we think so) Come along and see what it is :)
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Wow! The bartman face is wonderful! We have found so many bits of bartman jug, including a beard lol, but never the face. You are so lucky! Lots of fantastic finds there on the Thames - looks like you had a great time! Did not expect the mention at the end! This time it was US with tears in our eyes! You are all so cute! Take care, Gail & Alex x
We do really appreciate the shout out it was very kind of you. We have had a lot of new subscribers! Your success is well deserved you make lovely videos! Oscar especially enjoys watching you hunt for crystals, as its become a real interest of his! Hopefully that bartmann face comes your way soon, and hopefully we'll get a beard! Happy Hunting, Fleur, Kate & Oscar x
Rewatching some of the older videos. I love this one. After you are up and filming each other I realize how similar you both look to Oscar. You are all wonderfully talented and beautiful! Stay safe! ❤
I could feel Fleur's sheer and pure delight at finding her "Bartman Jug" face, and although I'm not entirely sure what the significance of it is, I am very happy 😊for you, Fleur! Very well-deserved indeed!
A Bartman Jug is a very old German stoneware jug dating from 16th century. The little faces do not always break complete, so they are quite sought after as they are all different.Unfortunately this is the only complete one I have ever found, still always hope to find another :)
Here it is 2024 and I still can't get enough of your early videos. Kate is even more beautiful now, if that's possible.
You guys are adorable! Love your excitement over your find. I watch the northern mudlarks too. And thank you all for sharing your beautiful journeys and adventures! Love from North Carolina, USA 🇺🇸
Thanks so much!
I decided to go back as far as I could and watch the earliest video you have on RUclips. Fleur, your giddiness at finding the Bartman face was really wonderful. I loved the ending and how silly you all were. Your video skills have definitely come a long way since then! ❤️
Yes we hopefully make much better films now haha :)
Congratulations on finding the Bartmann face! That's a one in a million find! Great work, Fleur!
Невероятные барышни, чем больше смотрю их видео, тем сильнее поражаюсь их уникальности!!!
Recently found your channel and I'm really enjoying it :)
Thank you that is very kind to say :)
Great finds! How exciting! I'd love to mudlark along the Thames!
I'm so thrilled for you and your Bartman face! Lovely footage!
I think i may have been a bit too excited but hey it was definitely high on my wish list for Thames finds. It is a face too I seem to find faces and heads best :)
Congratulations on the Bartman jug piece! How exciting!
Thank you I was just a tad excited haha :)
You are sooo brave, I'm old now but even in my teens I would have bulked at climbing that ladder, I have an absolute fear of heights. So shake on my dear, you have earned the right.
So many wonderful finds. I could have spent all day just sitting in one place .
Thank you for the lovely mudlarking adventure! And congratulations on your Bellarmine fragment, it is amazing! You all had a wonderful day! Thank you for letting us tag along!
Thank you! We are thrilled with our Bellamine face :)
I just love sitting and watching you to mudlark comment Kate is so infectious with her excitement I just love it I hope when I get to go over to England I get to meet the two of you love your fantastic fine the small ones really are the best I think but thank you so much for the enjoyment again this week🇨🇦❤️
The small things are definitely our very favourites. Thank you :)
That was perfect, south Carolina loves you all
Your family is a keeper. Enjoy your adventures and glad you seem to enjoy yourselves so much
Thank You for the Nice mudlarking video of the Thames.🙏
This is my medisin for today.😊
Thank you I`m really glad you enjoyed it :)
Yet another great video great finds great family love watching the excitement well done
Thank you!
Must remember that Tatting or lace making, though primarily starting in the North as a cottage industry, spread to the South as well. With many men also tatting during the winter lay off. (Also, many sailors and soldiers did it to pass the time.) A lot of the beads you will find, may have been acting as weights at the bottom of the spindles to help them spin the cotton. They also stopped the many threads tangling as the people made the intricate patterns the lords and ladies wanted for collers, cuffs, hankies, underware, baby clothes, net curtains etc etc A lot of merchants would pay good money for excellent work, and often guarded their tatters, keeping them secret incase they were lured away by better payments for their wares. So, many of the glass beads could have been used as they were favoured for the weight each size of bead carried. It helped with tension too. My Great Gran was a Tatter, and was often hiring girls, teaching them to Tat.
Love the videos, and the crafting. Stay safe.
Love the timeline you did in the round up!! Congrats on the jug face
Thank you! :)
You girls are so great! Oscar is too. I forgot this video. It is amazing. I hate ladders too now that my knees are older. You did magnificent!
I started watching your channel because of the Northern Mudlarks suggestion. I think I am seeing what they might be seeing about you. A genuine sweet excitement for finding stuff and loving the history. Thank you for sharing!
Hello! Thank you, glad you enjoyed it and welcome to our channel! :)
When I began watching this most excellent video, I had never even heard of a Bartmann jug. But now I want one!
I love, love, love faces, like the Green Man on church misericordia!!
Thank you! I too love faces as you can probably tell haha :)
4:55 a.m in the states and iwould love to be there hunting. Good luck lady's 😀
It does get a bit addictive! I never want to leave but the tide is unstopable :)
4:33 in Philadelphia myself.
Dream Find!! You have every right to be excited about finding that piece of Bartmann! Excellent trip to the Thames Foreshore. Thanks for taking us along.
Thank you I just can`t hide my excitement haha :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers I was still shaking from watching you descend the ladder...
@@salishseaquest7952 I was convinced I was going to fall haha!!
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers I would have felt the same way...in fact, I would have pleaded to go easterly to find some nice stairs down to the Thames -- perhaps the London Bridge circular stairs. Good for you for going along with what was presented. Your reward was two-fold -- the rainbow and the Bartmann!!
@@salishseaquest7952 The tide was coming in and we desperately needed to get down if we had had more time I would have pleaded too but finding the Bartmann was meant to be and the beautiful rare Ice-Bow (which has a lovely name) :)
Enjoyed watching, watching your search and seeing your finds. The ending shout out was cute. Thanks for sharing, GL, HH and take care.
Thank you the shout out was a bit impromptu :)
Fantastic your mudlarking gets better every time ⭐⭐Well done team ⭐⭐I love the face from an ancient jug⭐⭐Don't give up yet you will find much more in the future a really good video and as usual I really enjoyed your finds and round up!
Thank you! It is always exciting going to the foreshore, you just never know what you may find!! :)
Loved your ending...very sweet....love watching both of you there is so much fun in your adventures
Northern mudlarks is how I found you . Love your videos all the way here in Springtown Texas
Thank you i`m glad you enjoyed :)
RUclips suggested channel, yours is only the 2nd that I've watched of the suggested channels. I'm very glad that I did, this was a really fun video to watch 😃 I am now a new sub 👍☺
Thank you! I`m really glad you enjoyed :)
That’s a great idea going out mudlarking. Finding rare relics. I’m enjoying your show. I can’t wait to see what else you guys get to find.
Very good ! I love the face from the jug... awesome piece !! The clay pipes are always a favorite of mine... I don't get to find much of a variety over here. Thank you very much for the unexpected shout-out again, Oscar !! Have a super Sunday !
:) Oscar says you are welcome haha :)
Lol... thank you
another great trip,thanks for letting me tag along
Thank you and Happy New Year! :)
That was just beautiful, Nicola!
🌈Hi Fluer & Kate!!!! Not sure 🌈if someone commented on you’re🌈Rainbow when the Jet went over!!(Good Catch there!!) But that must have been a Sun dog🌈! Google it!! And always Look on the OTHER aside of the ☀️Sun for the other Sundog!!🌈 It happens when the air is so Cold way up There. So if you were filling late Oct. or Nov. xo 😘 Love You Guys! LOVE Your New Work and Crafts! xo 😘
Hello, thank you. Lovely show.
Thank you i`m glad you enjoyed :)
I am so proud of you climbing the ladder. I don’t think I could. 😁. Well done. Marilyn in Southern California 🇺🇸
Great vid. 👌💖
I feel exactly the same when it comes to the ladders. They're terrifying. 🙆
It is not only the height but they are also slippery because they have been underwater. They are as you say terrifying!! :)
Great video. ! Thank you !
Glad you enjoyed :)
glad you found something you really wanted.. was nice to see :)
Thank you, yes I did get a bit over excited haha :)
A ton of discoveries, congratulations ladies. Enjoyed watching and look forward to your next adventure. Happy New Years and wish you great hunting.
Thank you! Happy New Year! Kate x
Found you from Northern Mudlarks collab. It’s so noisy in London and I don’t mean the birds! Great Lark and will keep watching. 💕
Yes it is very noisy in London but strangely you don`t hear it so much when you are engrossed in searching for the tiny treasures. Welcome and I hope you enjoy the rest of our films (I hope that our recent films are a bit different and better than our early films) Thank you for watching :)
enjoyed the video especially the ladder climb, cheers
Thank you! The ladder climb was my least favourite as you can probably tell :)
That was fun. I wish I had a place to hunt little treasures... Even so it was a joy to watch you two get so excited with your finds.😎😎😎😎
Thank you! I`m never sure if I should try to hold back on my responses but no matter how I try I just forget in the moment! :)
Came back to see the oldest vid and it was amazing. I really love the end. You guys are funny. I thought that there were older vids then this one. The one when you guys walk down the river together. Maybe you tuke some down but that one was alot of fun as well.
Would you sell the face that you found. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Thank y’all for sharing
Thank you but sorry no I am very very fond of my Bartman face he is one of my first and best finds on the foreshore :)
Hi ladies, it was lovely to hear Mum getting all excited over her find, it's remarkable how that face was complete when the rest of the jug was smashed. I think Mum needs a little fold-up stool so she can have a sit down to calm her nerves every now and then :)
Those metal needle things with a loop on may have been used to mend / make fishing nets?
That rainbow was actually an 'Ice-bow' which is formed as sunlight is refracted through millions of tiny ice particles in the upper atmosphere and can only be seen when conditions are just right making it a rare sight.
Stay safe ladies. Hugs. Louie. xx
Thank you, I am a bit of a woose in all things to be honest and I get way to excited. I will learn to control it one day (or maybe not) I think I maybe highly strung! That is really interesting about the Ice-Bow it was really beautiful and I am sure it led me to my Bartmann :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers Hi, yes I think that ice-bow was sending you some larking luck to help you find that Bartmann.
As for your excitement, please don't ever lose that, it really made my day listening to you and is very much part of who you are and what makes you so cute and lovable :) x
I don't do ladders very well either after a few lucky escapes over the years, and heights now make me faint. lol xx
@@louiechidwick6034 I don`t think I can stop my excitement it just bubbles out before I can think about it, not much self control haha :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers so funny...love Mum's humor. 😆
This was so lovely ✌️🤍
Haha you are all adorable, made me laugh with that soothing ending 💛🧡 Love from Buenos Aires
Thank you from the U.K :) :) :)
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That was an intrepid adventure! I've got a vertigo that wouldn't ever let me do that ladder in either direction so I salute you both! It has been fun to see some of your earlier adventures (and zero worries on cinematography... the locations and finds are just fine!).
Thank you for sharing your adventure and showing us your finds. The bartman face was a real treasure and your excitement was quite contagious! I was signposted to your channel by the ladies at Northern Mudlarks, and have subscribed and 'pinged the bell' for future notifications. Thank you and good luck with your future treasure hunting - I'll be sure to watching out.
Thank you! I`m glad you enjoyed and I hope you enjoy our future treasure hunts too :)
How fun! New subscriber. You’re all adorable! Oh yes, and nice finds. 😊👍🌈
Thank you! I`m glad you enjoyed :)
Thank you for your discoveries that you had the nice gene to share to millions. Susann75
Really nice history finds.
Thank you :) :)
From cowboy country , Wyoming USA , thanks for your uplifting , interesting , fun channel ....
Please continue with the great albeit humble entertainment....
Yeehah !!!!! And ....
Cheers...
Thank you! That means a lot :)
Hello...I am a new subscriber from North Carolina..I live on mountain (look up Grandfather Mountain it is 10 min away) property that has been lived on since the 1700s...( hoping to date earlier) I get to dig in their old dumps amongst the roots. I love your posts and feel yours is one of the better to watch. I like that it flows more on real time rather than being so chopped up. I also look forward to seeing the kitty and hearing his purr. I also find many worked pieces of quartz ( there is a close mine) that were in the process of becoming arrows ..spear heads and other tools. Most likely Cherokee. The quartz piece you found looks like it could have been worked. It could of course be smooth from the giant tumbler called Thames..lol but it did have an arrowish shape and could use more investigation I think...why not right. keep em coming!
Thank you! All are videos are filmed in one day which is a bit scary if we do not find anything (luckily most of the time we find at least one good thing between us) :)
Evening from lreland I've tried watch this vid since this morning but with flu bug I'm sleeping or cause feel so crap sorry half watched. I'm awake feeling clear headed so it's time to watch history reveal itself. Love the Bartman piece his face too awesome. Wen younger collected bottles a friend of mine had 1 nearly 85% whole yes for me there kind of holy grail of bottles them & onion bottles. Tat piece I bet is more than most bottle collectors even find. As always cool hunt see you on nxt cheers thanks many regards from D1 Patriot. 👍🇮🇪☘Godbless 🙏
Thank you I was so happy to find the face as you could probably tell! It is rare though, most were smashed so it was lucky (it was the rainbow that led me to it haha) :)
😢 I sure hope you get better very very soon 🙏
@@kayesdigginit1519 thank you not a 100% but say 85/90% better nearly there Godbless too you.👍🇮🇪☘🙏
Loved the Bartman experience
Hi, nice video and nice finds...like
Thank you :)
You guys are pretty amazingly awesome too... 🖖☮️
Thank you! :)
My like is 110. Muy buen vídeo como siempre. Un saludo a ambas desde Chile.
Thank you!
Your alot braver then I, I would never of done that I'm afried of heights.
You can male jewelry from those beautiful bits of china and pottery you found. Love the bartman face. Just started watching your channel. Also where there are parts a nd stems of pipes there are whole ones buried somewhere. Look for just the edges sticking out or stems that could have bowls at the end.
Thank you I will probably use the china pieces in some of my art work and I may make a couple of necklaces for me and Kate :) We love finding whole pipes and wiggle all bits that we see just in case :)
oh my goodness! well done with the bit of jug with the man on it ( I can't even remember what its called lol )
Thank you it is something I wanted to find a lot!!!! :)
I'm working my way back through old episodes now - aren't they both wonderful people?
18:55 that top of that bottle I believe was the top of an onion bottle. Very old. A lot of neat finds. Good video as always. Your friend Steve Bonds from Bay City Michigan USA
We have so much to learn about our finds on the foreshore but it is always good to keep the old brain cells working learning new things :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers You can never stop learning. If you haven't already check out Nicola White Mudlarking,
Si-finds Thames Mudlark and Chill Bill video's they are the masters at mudlark history,
@@stevebonds4698 I have watched them all that`s how I at least know some things :)
Nice ducks .
Thanks we liked them :)
The gray pottery was German maybe salt glazed but I think that the bellarmine piece was too. The salt was added in at a specific stage of firing, according to the temp reached. Gave a distinct orange peal effect to the glaze. This made for stronger ceramic and was used for plumbing pipes.
Hello from a new subscriber, way out here in the Arizona desert in the U.S. **waves** That lovely chunk of glass is probably cullet-- colored glass used to be poured out in huge slabs to be broken up and sold to the people who'd work it into vessels and jewelry. For all I know, it's still done that way; but I do know that once 'cullet' just meant the pieces of the broken slab that would be melted down and used, and now it means waste or leftover glass, and often the pieces get put in aquariums. Who knows how old that is? Might be six months, might be from a Victorian glassworks or earlier. Pretty, though! (I worked in stained glass for 14 years; you pick bits of the history up.)
Wow that is really interesting! I will have to look in to that. I love different lumps of glass and it is really good to know the origins. It must have been really lovely to work in a stain glass factory all those colours! :)
Would love a necklace made of it.
Beautiful glass bottom. This was a long time ago.
I love the face bit you can make jewellery out of it be nice as a necklace
very nice videos , got your link from nothing mudlark,
Thank you!
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good job your wearing wellies
Definitely!!
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Bit late to comment but that piece of quartz looked very interesting, could almost say it looked like it had been worked ? Hmm was too quickly shown to get a good look... 🤔
I would have to find the stairs.
Great video, you might like to see nicola white mudlark video intnerview with Richard Hemery London pottety expert.
Thank you! I am going to buy Richards book as there is so much pottery on the foreshore I need to know the origins :)
fantastic video of you both. next time you both go again take a troul with you to do a bit of scraping it will help you to scrape over the stones what was the name of the bridge were the ladder was please . you found some very good fines . for one min i thought you was going to fall over in the mud when you got you boot stuck . but thank god you didnt . keep up the good work
Thank you! We are going to invest in a pointing trowel for our next trip hopefully (I think it is a pointing trowel that others use) :)
Also love the peace of music in the beginning of your video. 👍🏻
There's a whole beach of slag glass further up the Thames it's gorgeous
Oh I would like that! Where would that be? I understand if you would rather not tell :) I`m not sure why I love slag so much but I find it very beautiful!!!
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers I just caught my self reading your reply in your accent. It is so cute. I love the colored glass slang too. I am in the US so I could never get there but would love to see video of it.
@@mamasgonecreating1967 I`m going to have to investigate where it is. I am getting a rock tumbler for Christmas and I need some pretty slag :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers I am hoping to get one too. I added it to hubbies wish list on Amazon. We will see if he takes the hint.
No I don't think you do it for us viewers , I believe you must choose to do it for yourself & the joy it creates.
To be honest it is probably a bit of both :)
Kate ✨💚🥰
Loved the reaction to the Bartman fragment......I was going to ask Mr D'Arcy to fetch the smelling salts. I thought you had the vapours 😉
Yeah sorry I think I`m highly strung, I probably would have swooned a lot back in the day!
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers It was a great reaction - the world needs more joy in it. Loving the videos ladies!
30.19 that triangular peice of cream and black? I find loads like that up here and someone told me it's shell ?
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One day you'll find an whole bellarmine jug, they gained the nickname because of his large belly resembling the shape of the jug and he was partial to the gin they contained, they're not only made in Germany, Holland, the low countries etc, but also here, the London made ones are the rarest and fetch an high price, often sold as ones made abroad but if you know what to look for you can get a bargain.
That is really interesting! I thought he was against alcohol can`t always trust google haha. I would love to find a whole Bellamine!! :)
I dug a complete one only 6" high out of a Victorian Rubbish dump, a friend had a dated one 1598 out of the river in Shrewsbury.
@@hetrodoxly1203 Wow you must have been very excited!!! :)
Yes it was a good find, it's amazing what comes out of Victorian tips, but I have been, metal detecting and digging middens, castle dumps, manor house refuse pits for over 40 years, I've found onion bottles, whole pipkin slip wear bowels, a few years back a guy found 24 bellarmines in a field, it wasn't a random find he'd spent long hours doing research and dug at the site of a potters kiln and what he found were rejects, if I could give you a tip (pun intended) research, research, research, it's amazing what get's lost in council minuets, I can't say much about this but we found in Birmingham City council minuets from about 1850, workmen working in the 'Bull Ring' found a tunnel leading to the cellar of a local pub, they said it was full of old rubbish and ancient bottles, you'll find more reading than you will walking, but not as much fun :) good luck and I hope you find a lot of stuff.
@@hetrodoxly1203 I am very envious of your finds and the man with the 24 Bellamines! I do a little research, that is how I discovered the two beaches we visit. It is sometimes difficult to know where to look sometimes to be honest. It is actually surprising how often you just sort of wander across things haha
I believe those are Mallard Ducks not Egyptian geese... love the finds today and the excitement of the bucket list find! Cheers from Costa Rica!
Thank you!
Andie they are not Mallard ducks!
@@franrowe8696 No, they are Egyptian geese
@@richardeade3766 Gotcha! The Egyptian geese I saw were red and white so I learned something new!!😁
26:52 cork screw for cork stopper-?
It could be! :)
Could those “pins” or the twiddly bits be broche pins?
Possibly I will have to look at them a bit closer :)
Man I wish we had old cities here in America but we don't.
You may not have really old cities but I would love to visit America! You are so very good at celebrating things like Halloween and Christmas. Your vintage packaging is amazing. I would need a very very big suitcase :)
@@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers well if you ever make the jump over I'm sure that best things you'll find here are gemstones and fossils. Also I'll gladly be your guide if you'll have me XD
Congratulations on finding the Bellarmine face.
Two good Medieval building's in that area of the Foreshore around the Battersea bend.
The Bishop of York had a Palace building where once Prices Candles used to have a factory on that site. Large Archaeological dig in the late 1990s just off the York Road. Hence why it's called the York Road.
So must have had a pier or jetty wharf on the Thames close to where the Heliport and Plantation Wharf now are. But the 1880 construction of the Embankment wall changed the shape here.
The second location is on the other side. In Chelsea.
Henry the 8th riverside Tudor pad and hunting lodge. Just off Chenyè walk. Prime location back then.
So plenty of imported high status Continential ware and pottery items.
Finally the Earl of Bolingbroke had is London drum or Manor house somewhere in Battersea. One place by the river bit with maybe another higher up away from any flooding of the Thames closer to Clapham Junction explains Bolingbroke Grove. Nice dry site where water can drain down from, and the trackways doesn't become a quagmire in the Winter, when on Horseback or in your private carriage.
Cheers from the Battersea Brick Hunter.
That is really interesting and explained why we found such great pottery! We will have to revisit the area (hopefully to find an easier acess!) :)
Until the Great Stink of the 1850s the River Thames was a lot wider than the River as we see it today.
Joseph Bazelgette built a modern looking river enclosed with new high embankment walls. And many new River crossings
Changing the height at waters edge. To get his new Bridges over the River. The old 1777 timber framed Battersea Bridge was replaced in around 1888. So clues can still be founded in the landscape maps to where the old roads were. Bridge Lane, mostly covered over by a modern housing estate, is a strong clue.
But best still is
Westbridge Road. The Road that is to the West to the Bridge. Took my years to spot that one. And I live here
So construction of both bridges in North Battersea churned up lots of stuff. Including the famous Battersea Shield now on display at the British Museum. Worth seeing it.
@@davidevans6758 I had no idea that is fascinating! I shall take Oscar to see the Sheild he would like that :)
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And then get the Postcard from the Museum Shop and post it to someone overseas.
Mmmmmm. Are !!!
Thank you I think :)
Do you get the feeling Nicola or Simon would have found 6 pipes or a cod bottle in the first 50 feet? Just by eagle eyed ness?
Thinks place looks a tad too sinister for my likings lol. I bet you could find some nasties here. Wondering what’s the nastiest thing you have ever found. 😉
What are the smoking pipes made of?
Some kind of China clay ? Poured into a mould ,or made in two halves,that’s why the pipes sometimes have patterns along the seams.
Broseley (not sure of the spelling) ,Shropshire,England is /was where there’s a pipe museum. I think it’s an area where a lot of factories were making pipes.Worth a Google?
batmen bottles with jars
Hi my name is Joann Perez I love your show have you ever thought of making jewlry out of your pieces of dish pieces I have a pin made out of blue plate is antique be nice to see
I have made a few pieces for family and friends as presents but they are very simple :)