Mudlarking / Beechcombing Adventure. Hunting treasures by the river.
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- Опубликовано: 9 янв 2019
- Accompany me on my very first (filmed) mudlarking adventure. I did it ill equipt; no wellies and only an old iPad to film with. Still, I did find some interesting things, I had a good time, and I've now hopefully put together a watchable and somewhat entertaining video.
If you do enjoy this video, please give it a like and subscribe. More are coming, and I aim to improve. Suggestions, comments and criticisms are all welcome.
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#Mudlarking
My first ever collection was of decorated pottery shards picked from the Puget Sound, WA, USA, beach below my aunt's house. It was not a formal dump site, although some residents of the area might have used it as such, relying on the tides to remove everything. At four years old, I found those little bits and pieces of dishes to be beautiful. That was almost 76 years ago.
My first collection was interesting stones; ones that I found in the river, on paths, or in my neighbours driveway. But pottery and things that people have made has surplanted that; although I'm not beyond a bit of fossilhunting or rock-hounding. I'm glad you've found my channel, and I hope you get a lot of enjoyment from my videos. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 Pebbles come in as collection # two. I was mesmerized by the sparkling flecks of mica found in some granite. I still glean the beach for rounded rocks to add to gravel paths I have made in my garden.
Discovered your channel a couple of months ago and am still searching out your earlier videos. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
Purrr.....very soothing.
Thank you 🙂
Beautiful video listen to u very sweet thank u for sharing your moment
Thank you 😊
I love your film noir approach to video.
Thank you. 🙂 I didn't know that's what I was doing, but thinking about it... yes, I think maybe I am.
Your videos are so lovely. I could listen for hours. I hope you will make many more-thank you so much.
Aw, thankyou, that's such a lovely complement. More videos coming after I've tackled my tax return.
What beautiful countryside !
Yes, I feel blessed to live in such a place 🙂
Lovely video, you are most fortunate to live in such a beautiful place in the world. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching, and commenting, it's much appreciated, and it all helps grow this channel. I do love this place I live in, and I'm glad I'm able to share some of it.
I suggest that the beautifully worn pottery and dish ware shards would be perfect for a mosaic craft. Among other things, I glued broken blue and white porcelain on a bowling ball, then grouted it. A large shallow bowl would work, though you can mosaic any sturdy surface. I dreamed of doing a sink and the outside of a claw foot bathtub, though it never happened. People have done all kinds of things with broken tile and pottery, even entire houses! What a beautiful place. I do wish I had gotten stuck there in my youth instead of California!
My what a difference to today's videos ! I am just going through and watching ones which I missed.
Oh my gosh! I subbed after I watched one video. I am hooked. Very well done. Thank you!
Thank you too! Such lovely comments are keeping me enthusiastic about making these videos.
The orange plastic item looks sort of like a chalk box for snapping a line in carpentry. Possibly not but I couldn't see it very well.
I can't get enough of your videos and I'll probably have to start watching them over from the very first one. You are my absolute favorite to watch and especially to listen to. I had a horribly stressful day (Mom 95, is sick and I'm her caretaker) and your videos really soothe me. Thank you Tom for relieving some stress in my day.
hey Tom
I'm sitting here buried in snow in fairbanks Alaska,thank god I can watch video's like yours
It keeps me from getting cabin fever ,you know you have it when you start painting the snow green with flowers ,lol
stay safe buddy and good luck on your future hunts (big thumbs up from Alaska )
Alaskan gold rush relic hunting sounds like a great time... I'll have a watch of some of your videos tonight. I think getting snowed in is going to happen here too soon... not as impressively wintery as Fairbanks, but 4 inches of snow is forecast, and that'll make lots of potential finds invisible. I'm aiming to film a few outings before it happens, and will edit them when it snows. Thanks for all your encouraging words, I'm glad you've enjoyed the videos so far. Hopefully future videos will get better and better; not so much the next one; but all the ones after that will be filmed with a much better camera. Good luck on your next hunt too, stay safe. (big thumbs up from UK).
@@tomburleigh9261 I used to live near Fairbanks, and now 15 years in the North of England. There's snow on the ground for 8 months there, 2 of mud, and two of green. But the green months have 20 hours of sun, so you get more in. Snow in Rotherham pales compared to Alaska, but I'm still waiting.
Oh please do continue with your finding & filming! Altogether very pleasing, in every aspect. The music is marvelous. Your sites & finds are wonderful as well. And your voice & way of description is THE BEST. I look forward to more of your offerings! A pleasure to experience and thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so much for such a lovely comment. You're the first to mention the music; I'm not hugely confident as a musician or composer, so to receive a complement on it means a lot. The next video is currently rendering, and should appear online sometime tomorrow... I hope you continue to enjoy them. Best regards, Tom.
@@tomburleigh9261 Well Tom, I am an acoustic musician (upright bass & sing) and am particularly fond of finger-style guitar music. Your choices are wonderful & also new to me. Many times I will simply mute music I find distracting or sometimes just annoying on people's videos. Your music choices are calming, pleasing and downright stately, as is your video style. I'm really happy to have found you & will await all your productions!
Thanks again Sally. I hope to write more music for my mudlarking videos so the soundtrack doesn't become stale. I'm not sure about the piece I put in the latest one (still uploading)... it's whispy and heavily processed... sounds better on accoustic, but I can't record it as well. For some of the craft and writing videos I have planned, I don't have any pieces long enough yet, so I might invite some of my friends to contribute... those videos might not be to your taste, I don't really expect the audience from my mudlarking videos to enjoy the surreal Gothic story poems I've written, and vice versa, though I probably will put them on the same channel. I do love the upright bass, it's a fantasy of mine to learn to play one, and cello... but circumstances haven't led me there yet.
@@tomburleigh9261 I'm a Lorena McKinnett fan, so BRING IT ON! Ha!
You are one extremely unique and interesting man. Thank you for your fascinating walks and talks (love your voice). 💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦💧💦
Thanks Marina, I'm glad you enjoy the walks and the talks. I shall try not to let the compliments go to my head. 🙂
I love you 🎶 listen too your voice at night so wonderful to hear your stories and thoughts.
Tom I am going back to your first video. This was fun and your picks were unique. My favorite was the big bottle stopper. Considering this was your first video, you kept my.
interest. So on to the next video
Take care, hugs. 🌴🙋
I hope I've improved greatly since my first video, but I'm very glad you still found it fun and interesting. 🤗
Hi again Tom, I have now been through your entire library of videos, and have enjoyed each one....I love all the shards and stoppers, particularly the beautiful stoneware stopper...I also bottle dig and find a lot of pottery shards ....I bring home the prettiest and display them in a nice, large , flat bowl...I must tell you that I’ve enjoyed your chatter and your voice, and your point of view....Thanks again for bringing us along.....All the best...Cathy
Thanks Cathy, I hope the videos I'm planning on making contiue to be enjoyable for you. I've enjoyed the videos of yours that I've watched too... you have a lovely relaxed and natural chatter style.
All the best... Tom.
Hey Tom are you an artist and if so could you possibly have a video on what you make. I think we would find it interesting. Thank you!
Not a very prolific one, there's a few examples of my artwork at the end of the "Post industrial river walking" video. I prefer writing these days, but do occasionally do craft and art projects and hope to make some videos around some of them soon.
wow you have great finds. your film is truly , madly, watery, deeply entertaining, l loved it. gosh how l wish l could wade in river water or any water, l can't even wade in bath water, l can't really walk on dry land. lt has messed up my life but through your films l can!. thank you for beautiful work
An excellent video, with amazing narration and great humour. Loved it!
Thanks Caroline and Phil. I wasn't all that confident as a narrator for this, so you mentioning it means a lot.
You are amazing as a narrator ! I love listening to your voice.
Thanks, I love your voices too.
Just lovely, Thank You. I have watched all your videos now and have enjoyed every moment🇨🇦
I'm so glad you've got such enjoyment out of what I've been doing. Thank you :)
Revisited this today…I remember seeing this for the first time three years back…the ducks and the teapot spout. 😀
That is a beautiful collection of blue and white pottery pieces. You find such pretty blue and white pieces, Tom.
Now I just have to do something with them all. 🙂 I think I might make a birdbath, tiled with pieces.
Love those little ears! I know just how I'd display old, broken doll parts, too. I'm sad that most people probably just toss broken porcelain dolls away, it's such a shame.
That antler handle is really something, too! Would love to know its story. I forget if this was the video with the flint chip but man, now that is a find! As much as I love Victorian era things, I am pretty obsessed with stone age technology and finds.
The best guess I could get from the Portable Antiquities Scheme is that the antler handle is post Medieval. Could be any age after, they don't have the resouces to Carbon date anything so unimportant to the archeological record... even though it is still one of my favorite finds. I do have some neolithic sites in the local area that I might explore in the future, but probably most of the decent finds have been picked over already.
I started watching your adventures during the pandemic and got caught up to present. I am now back tracking and found your first video! Cool! I was tickled to hear your now famous fraze, “I’ll take it”. Fascinating to see your progress. I enjoy your videos very much. I like that you look at and find metal as well as pottery and glass. It adds much more dimension along with your history & narratives. Ty for all your hard work and fun and history and perfect music. From Northern California, Silicon Valley.
I think both ears are from dolls, they often have markings on the neck underneath the hair. Love your vids, 2 in, will watch all! Relaxing stuff.
Thanks :) I haven't been able to find a phrenology-like head with matching letters, so you may well be right. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.
Are you a narrator of documentaries ? Or a spoken word artist ? You should be.
Very kind complement, thank you. I don't think I'm quite ready to narrate documentaries, I've done some spoken word performances of my own story-poems, but I have to rehearse them... if I try to adlib, my brain has a tendency of running multiple trains of thought at once, which collide in my mouth and cause me to um and ah, and stop. I'm hoping doing these videos will be good practice.
I agree. He has a wonderfully soothing voice. I love listening to him.
@@debbrabossier7284 Same
Well done . I enjoyed it very much and appreciated being with you your first time lol .
I am so glad that I found your videos. You have the most wonderful voice. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
Thanks Joanna, I'm glad you found my videos too. :)
I decided to go back and check your first mudlarking adventures and see what I have missed.
I really enjoyed the video. You did great!
Thanks, I'm glad you think so.
Great first video!
Going back and found I had not seen all your vlogs. 🏝🌞
Real nice way 2 start the day watching tom finding beautiful river treasure. Great vid, always entertaining and fab 2 know the history of some of the things.
Aw, thanks Lisa. I didn't really know much of what I was doing or what I was finding in my first video, I'm glad you liked it regardless of that. 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 l do hope you created the elephant with the teapot spout trunk. My first thought was "an elephant blowing it's own horn".
loved it. Well done.
Thank you 🙂
Re the tomato plant... You're gonna love or hate this. When South Yorkshire had floods in 2007, the sewers overflowed and the stuff came to the surface on valley road, toilet paper and other things ladies shouldn't flush. Weeks later along the hedgerows dozens of tomato plants sprouted up. I'm hoping your river has escaped effluence from the sewers. Well I guess you'll love it if you like tomatoes awfully. Hard to get the image from my mind 🙂
Hi Tom, I am way too old to read all 118 posts , so bear with me. In case no doll collector told you, those letters and numbers on the back of the dolls heads are where the doll makers sign their work. Thank you for sharing your mud larking with us all. I will wade through your videos , looking forward to learning more about you and your art and craft work. G'night..deb
Thanks Deb. I've passed that Doll head on to Mudlarking with Kit and Caboodlers now. I'll try to remember to tell them next time I see them, and perhaps they can track the maker. 🙂
I do love the views. I so want to move to the UK. Beautiful places!
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. More please!
Thanks Faith, I'm planning to show lots of pretty little pieces of the UK... wherever there's a river, or a beach, I want to explore.
I found and subscribed to your channel a couple weeks ago and haven't looked back! Loll!! Love your very soothing voice, your very interesting narrative, the sounds of the river and the music.. Thank you so much for the lovely videos. Following you from Jamaica! 🖤💚💛 (Awesome pottery shards and river glass, by the way..!)
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy them so much, and I love finding out how far afield my little local videos are being enjoyed 🙂
I like the way you are continually surprised and curious about what you find. And there are a lot of quirky things there. Would anyone else have thought of turning a teapot spout into an elephant? I'd be interested to see that... !
Several manufacturors have made teapots in the shape of elephants, (I googled it when you asked), I don't know if anyone's taken a broken teapot spout and turned it into an elephant sculpture though. Surprise and curiosity are all part of being an explorer at heart... taking joy in finding things and enjoying the challenge of figuring out what they are. I'm glad you like it, and thank you for commenting.
Great stuff
Thanks :)
I had a good time joining along on your lark. Very relaxing and soothing. I subscribed and am looking forward to more! ~Jen from Michigan
I must say Tom, a well done on this first one 👍 I think I saw a spot you've since returned to, recognized bldg. By the bridge? Anyways you have greatly improved, but this one, like the rest was enjoyable🌝🇺🇸
Thank you. I didn't have the right camera, or anywhere near the knowledge I have now... but making the first video was the right choice; persuaded me I could. 🙂
Hi Tom, I think the pottery with an ear comes from a doll made about 1890- 1925. the markings on the back of her neck show 3 and what could be another 3 or 8 and then the name of the maker. Looking in my book I cant find a 38* but there is a 338 or 339 made by Ernest Heubach. ps Love the videos.
Thank you so much! Every so often, I've searched online trying to find a match, and failed. This points me in a much more promising direction than the ones I've followed.
Beachcombing😉
Hi. New sub from Scotland 👍
Hi, and thanks James, saw you out digging on Bottle Digger Kyles Channel; will have a watch through of your videos too. 🙂
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Loved the video, I have subscribed and look forward to more from you.
Thank you so much, I'm working on another, to be up in a few days.
I hope you get those wellies and make more videos. I subscribed just waiting for more.
Thank you so much, you're the first subscriber I don't know personally. I got Wellies for christmas, and a new camera arrived today. But I've got footage of two more outings to edit and upload before they get a public outing.
Thanks
Did you find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Great video, thanks for sharing! 🙏🏼👍🏼🍀🇨🇦GL and HH!
I know where the rainbow landed, and I explored there a few weeks later... no pot of gold, but I did find a pot full of sand and pebbles. 😀
@ 12:52 looks like a end of a pipe bowl and with the bowl barely can see it but I could be mistaken II see it right above that white thing
Certainly looks like part of a pipe to me. I do find a lot of pieces there; mostly just the stems though 🙂
@@tomburleigh9261 When I watch the video it's like I wish I was there inspecting the grounds also. I just realised I have been doing this kind of hobby for as long as I can remember except We/I call it rock or Arrowhead hunting I pick up anything cool and unusual.And have stumbled upon old landfills and such here and there. I' walk everywhere. dry creek beds, river sandbars. An occasionally find old abandoned homesteads and farms. But no Clay pipes. I live in Iowa and I was born in Ohio. I would find all kinds of fossils and stones. You can't keep me out of the woods.
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Thank you, I hope you enjoy the videos yet to come too.
The glass rod mystery object is from a percolator.
Thanks you, I think you're probably right 🙂
I also thought so.
11:41 spotted coin/small disc. between fingers at 12:15 hoping to see what the disc, coin shaped item was?
@ 6:30 Teapot spout. What fun...elephant. I was thinking coat and hat wall piece and cupboard doors handles. I am rather jealous of your location and all the pieces you find I live in the desert part of AZ/USA and there is nothing like you have there to explore or pieces to find. We have some items but most of them need to be returned to the tribes so they can take care of them In an appropriate way. And then there's the heat. Oven furnace actually. Did I mention I am jealous? Anyone else jealous of the beauty and the finds??
Aw, I do live in a very special place for this hobby, I feel privileged and lucky. Arizona has gold though... scorching heat and gold. Nugget Shooter Journals is a RUclips guy who hunts for it, I do feel a little jealous of that too; I've tried panning in some of the river's here, and there's no visible trace of gold... not that I care about gold, I just like finding things. 🙂
Living in the desert of SW Idaho, I sometimes also envy the water I see and hear in Tom's wonderful videos. 😊
paula null Arizona here👋🏼
Hello 👋 I live near the river Calder where abouts is this ? I remember the colours!
Hello Sandy, this is in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.
Thankyou for sharing. I think it is stonemasons marks on that stone, seen that marking before.
Thanks, I've seen it around before too... but never on a stone that is otherwise obviously worked. Yet.
@@tomburleigh9261 I have seen it on stone blocks used for building. Churches, halls etc.
When you narrated this your voice is to low speak louder than the background sounds!
I like the idea of cleaning up the river the plastic thing with the handle is a chalk box!
Slow down your talking and speak up I'm old and deaf later brocephus!
Yes, I agree... I've hopefully improved upon that in subsequent videos, though there are a few points still where the noises of the river interfere with the midranges of my voice no matter how much I speak up. I'm trying to find a way around that. Thanks for identifying the Chalk box, I had no idea.
@@tomburleigh9261 - Yes, a chalk line used in construction and carpentry to "snap" a straight line.