Mudlarking in Central London. How many objects have been thrown in the River from Tower Bridge?!
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- Searching Tower Bridge foreshore at low tide! How many objects have been lost or tossed in the River Thames by people walking over Tower Bridge in Central London over the centuries? Join me as I search the foreshore to see what is in the mud at low tide under the bridge. You might be able to help me to identify some of my finds One of the huge pleasures of mudlarking is that you just simply don't know what you are going to find from one moment to the next. My favourite finds are those that I can link to a person or a place. In this video I find a small non descript looking button, but it brings to life the story of a clothier and outfitter from the 19th century. I also find some medieval chain mail armour. Imagine being able to go back in time to see who once wore it! It really is food for the imagination.
Thank you for watching. Comments and info on my mudlarking finds are very welcome.
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Nicola
Nicola White
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I really like the kindness and respect with which you treated that discarded art. I hope the maker sees your video and values their work a little more highly. That was a lovely gesture, putting it where it would be seen. 💕
I agree!
This lovely lady deserves an honorary degree in archaeology...what a huge body of work, well researched and enthuses everyone with her enthusiasm.
I agree 👍!
I wonder if that piece of stained glass came from a building damaged by WW2 bombing. There must have been lots of such buildings near the river, and the leading was often heat damaged so the windows collapsed
You sound and seem like a really lovely person Nicola. You're a pleasure to listen to. Thank you. Mud larking is so exciting and doing it on the Thames, wow. One day perhaps...
Your videos go down so well on a chilled Sunday afternoon nicola …. Just what we need …. Keep them coming 🌟 x
I am endlessly fascinated by the clay pipe artistry. There really seems to have been no limit on their imaginations, and every time someone finds a new design, it’s so interesting.
yes, me too. they are like little works of art
I truly appreciate your videos so much, particularly the history you dig up. Thank you.
Some nice finds, that stained glass and lead looks very much like the lower windows you showed on the tower to me
Thanks for this Nicola most fascinating. Do let us know if you manage to find where the Stained glass was from.
brilliant find i mean
The most proabale source of the chaimail is probably a butchers glove, but it also possibly from the uniform of a mounted officer of the Royal Artillary who had chainmail epilettes.
Thank you
A bit of 15th century chainmail, a ring with a green stone--maybe we visualize a knight in armor on a boat thinking of his love left behind, her ring on his finger as he gazes fondly at the token she gave him to remember her by, and a sudden bump of the ever jealous Thames river god and the boat lurches , the ring is lost overboard while the knight valiantly tries to make a grab for it, his sleeve in chainmail snagging on a spar, breaks off and is lost alongside the ring...sinking together to the depths and washing up together still..for our Nicola to find centuries later....
by the way I have made chainmail - it took me months to make a single coif - that is a sort of hood that went over my head with padding underneath , I wore it many times under my helmet when I was a fighting lord in the medieval society - the Society for Creative Anachronism which has split the world up into Kingdoms, Provice, Baronies, etc. and people in it dress similar to medieval eras and have sword fights with wooden weapons -(but which still hurt I can tell you!) and some of us also chose to make or buy chainmail for a more authentic look as well as its help in stopping blows from our opponents. The kind I made was made from steel screen door springs -which I cut with a chisel in a vise and then "wove" together (4 rings in every one other ring) . Labor intensive, my physics class professor during ine of his lectures found me busily making armor with two pairs of pliers in his class! :-)
Ok seeing that 5 złoty made my day thanks :)
When I saw the stained glass I thought it was part of a Tiffany style lamp because of the way it was bent.
the london coat of arms.... even us yokels know that.
Yes I know! Well done you ❤️
Nic, As far fetched as it may seem, that artist's work could become valuable. A friend of mine owns some early Picasso work and it looks very elementary to me. At the very least, they would be cool accent colors, if propped behind the other treasures, on the shelf in your studio. Can always be tossed later? Just sayin'. Oh Good, you laced them on the steps by the wall! : ) Since Art is Forever, it's sad to think of it being discarded. I'm fascinated by the stained glass and chain mail also. Would be interesting to weigh the chain mail and guesstimate how much it would weigh in it's entirety? Your pretty lead find reminds me of the shoulder (Capulet?) used on the breast plate, in the time of Julius Ceasar. A piece of a replica for a small lead statue perhaps? I Enjoy your videos and your Graciousness.
i still think one of your fish would look pucker made out with pipe frackments :o)
Whenever Nicole says 'Can you see it?' I always think 'yeah, that long thing on the left.' And then inevitably, she moves the camera away and picks up a coin.I feel like a back seat driver.
That metal nail thing with twirly bits on...yep, it happens every time
I saw a shell fossil to the left.
Me too 😅
Once I swear I saw an unused yellow condom, then in another instance a rusty closed switchblade. Both times Nicola was looking at something different, lol. Fascinating stuff!
@@Limeysack I wonder if the things we see, say something about who we are 🤔
I can’t even imagine casually picking up chain mail. I was thrilled to find a milk bottle from 1912 in my 122 year old house😂 What a lovely day in London❤️
1899, so if you aren't in a city you probably have a trash pit there. Look for bits of broken aqua blue glass, metal, and broken porcelain on the edge of the property or adjoining woods nearby, in a low spot! There may have been a privy too, but many homes had toilets and running water by 1899 too. The privy would be near the back door and the ground there will be real soft, "rich" looking, and smelly!
@@justdustino1371, thank you! We own two acres of land. We are in an urban area but have adjacent wildlife protected land!
Great name!
@@bathshuaspooner8553 If you own two acres, you are in a town, not a big city! There is a bottle pit there. Look for broken glass on the surface.
I’m
Amazed that the chain mail wasn’t rusted back into its elemental dust
The Russian coin has an iron core hence the outer copper peeling away. Our modern 1 and 2p coins are made in the same way. The 2p that you found and left for a future mudlarker was starting to bubble with rust from the inner core.
Brass-plated steel, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_ruble. Nobody is faking russian kopecks, just poorly constructed coins that desintegrate over time in the water....
Thanks.
Nicola, some years back my Brother and I where crossing tower bridge, and both of us tossed a lot of U.S. coin's, perhaps you will find them,cheers.
Great. Thanks Eric. I shall look for them next time Im there! x
Hopefully it was way before 1965.
Why?
U.S. coins before 1965 have a more durable mixture of metals and corrode less. Newer coins corrode terribly in dirt or salt water, fairly quickly too.
U.S. Dimes and greater value coins were 90% silver (coin silver) before '65. 1942-45 5 Cents are 40% silver as Nickel was a "Strategic metal", 1943 Cents are zinc plated steel. Regular Nickels corrode badly, an 1883 was OK, an 1898 and 1903 and 1907s were pretty bad, and more modern ones. In 1982 Cents became copper plated zinc, the Thames would wreck them. Other ones are copper and gold up OK or badly, depending
Nicola that is the *largest piece of chain mail* I've seen found on the foreshore, *what a find!* And I love the leaded glass! No matter how humble its origin, a beautiful object of history. Kindly❤Dudley
Thank you Dudley! sending you love, xx
I wondered if you had run that chunk of window past the church shown. Though they may not need it, finding matching period glass is likely difficult when effecting repairs.
I was a Guardsman in London for many years and often looked out over the Thames from the Tower and pondered on years gone by, the History and the untold tales that she held. I find these videos a great way of putting a realisation in to those memories, so thank you.
Thanks John. So glad you're enjoying them
Your editing and production are just great and I love your passion and enthusiasm for your finds. This can’t be faked on a big budget show where other people tell you how to present yourself and your work. The genuine article. Thanks
Thanks Bonnie x
Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Hello from Michigan, U.S.A. I enjoy your videos so much. You are an engaging history teacher to us all. The way you present your treasures makes history come to life...connecting us to time, place, and person of the artifacts. 👏Bravo!
What a fascinating pastime, combining history, geology, biology, and lots of other ologies! And art work. Thanks for posting, Nicola.
Thank you!
Interesting finds! I have been "mudlarking" my parent's house and garages. Anyone want an ox yoke? We have three. Also found several of my mother's hordes of coins - so far around $1,000-ish.
I wold have expected a lot more wedding rings, that's where I threw mine...
I'm sure there's lots right in the middle of the river
Chainmail Epaulettes are still part of British Army mounted officer's uniforms. Which I guess would be made from a non-rusting metal.
yes, these can't be medieval, they lack the typical rivetting that combat chainmail had
I never comment, however being in Lockdown 5 (Victoria, Australia), I could watch you for days on end. It really fascinates me the amount of history is over there. I know all countries have history, however around my area not so much. The research you do gives glimpses into the people who lived and you Nicola bring that back to life.
Thank you I'm so glad you enjoy these forays into history
In Vic lock down here too. Was hoping in vain for more easing of restrictions. But we are better safe.
You need to get out and start exploring similar river banks as nicola. Melbournes history goes back at least 150 years.
@@michaelturner1435 That it does, I have found dice sized pieces of pottery when I lived in the metro area, where I am now....well? Woudn't even know where to start.
@@miccole5362 hello from Gippsland! I know exactly what you mean… I’d love to do this too 🙂🙁
We are in Lock down again here in Adelaide SA, hopefully for just the week (3 more sleeps), so Nicola and all the Mudlarks of the UK are keeping my spirits up! Thank you so much xx ❤🇦🇺
Ah, we are all thinking about you and I send you love and hugs. xx
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St Agnes is my local shopping centre, but I was there earlier in the day. Lucky escape. We should be ok my Wednesday I think.
@@59jalex Yes fingers crossed - my dear old father (who thinks he's 18) keeps pestering me to take him out to the pub Lol... "No Dad, the pubs are still closed!!!" Sheeesh, he's driving me nuts lol.. Bless him ❤
@@iamshotty hello from another South Australian in lockdown unwinding with these beautiful videos
Dear Nicola ,
You did it again. Whatever you find you always bring it to life and breathe air into it. I feel I am on the journey with you when you discover something. Thank you and keep digging and inspiring.
Poppet
Thanks Poppet. All my love xx
Dear Nicola,
I'm a Dutchman and London is a bit too crowded and busy for my taste. But I love your videos. Sometimes you have finds which are very interesting. But to be frank, I also find it very nice to watch you mudlarking for a half of an hour before going to sleep. Your videos and your voice make that I get in a peaceful state of being and fall asleep soon. I do not want to state that you're somniferous, but I certainly fall easier in a deep sleep when I switch off the light. Thank you for your videos.
Hello, I'm delighted that I can put you to sleep with my larking! The relaxation must ooze out of the screen obviously 💤💤😴
I am half a word away on the West Coast of California and have found out the same thing. Nicola’s mudlarking videos calm me so that I can fall asleep. The sound of the wind and the waves and the topic of mudlarking are engaging enough to relax me. 🥰💕❤️👍👍
That nature interlude with the cormorant and jazz was delightful. 💜
Thank you Ariel. I wasn't sure what music to put with that as I do feel sorry for the poor eel. In the end, after much deliberating I chose the jazz. Honestly though, how can it be pleasant eating an eel almost longer than your own body - with it wiggling all the way down to your stomach!!?
"What is to be found under Tower Bridge at low tide ?" ... well, that's a trick question, right ?
My guess is ... Nicola White's Boot prints !
She says “can you see it down there?” and I see three or four interesting things!
Every time!
Right
Lol right? Im like “whats the green thing?” “Isnt that an agate?” “A square nail!”
@@buzzbomb67 ...I was looking at a different coin and I'm saying "pick it up, no, the other one". Hahahaa
@@davidrobbins4857 lol I think I did that too
Happy Sunday great vid as always I hope that the stained glass window 🪟 turns out to be a pirate 🏴☠️ ship window & we can have a whole episode on it please (if not it’s still very interesting)
Thank you 🙏
Thank you! I think it very well should be a pirate ship window. Thank you for the suggestion :) x
Hello Nicola,
Nice to see you back. Oh....what a wonderful sound. I hear wind, water and every stone.
Thank you for filming your adventure.
Listen the sound of history from Lara.
Liebe Grüße Jette
Thanks Jette. So glad you enjoyed it. I shall look up Lara x
Hey Nicola Happy Sunday. I missed last week because I went to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for a relaxing moment with my friend who is visiting from Jamaica and my son who I am reuniting with after an absence for almost 2 full years.
Happy reunion have a lovely day 🙏
I hope you had a wonderful time with your son! xx
Yayyyyyyy!! Was sooo happy to see you just posted! Woo hoo! Made my Sunday morning! ( : I love you guys have Uber boats on the Thames! As far as I know Uber boats are not a thing in America yet! It is a brilliant idea, though! ( : Did you just want to lark on the other side for a change?
Wow! Right away you found a huge chunk of beautiful chain mail too! That's wonderful! ( : The ring is beautiful and the coin is too big for a modern penny! ( : Wow, an earring too?! ( : That looks like a real silver too! ( :
Thanks Tracy. Yes I dont go to Central London much but did enjoy that x
@@nicolawhitemudlark soooo cool! The historical significance of what you and your friend's find in and around London, and farther out, is soooo fascinating and opens up the world of the past for laymen such me, and other of your followers, so we get to have a glimpse of how our ancestors lived in the past! Magical! I love you bring particularly significant items and those that seem very important to the museum too! It brings even more importance to your finds! I love your channel soooo much! I love watching all of them! Still binging them all, thankfully you made many, so I have lots left to watch! Because you have us try to find the items with you, I have gotten very good at finding the items now, which I feel very proud 8f! At first I never saw a thing! Lol! ( : Thanks again for bringing such not, culture. And history to all our lives! ( : ❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗
Ah Nicola, it’s beautiful. England is so rich with history. I really enjoy these adventures, and thank you for taking us along.
I love old buttons. My mom used to have a box of buttons, all sorts, shapes and sizes. I used to love running my hands through them. Some were glass, leather, metals, and even the earliest form of plastic, I loved the iory ones. The box has sadly disappeared, I love the joys of your finds! Thank you for taking us along on your adventures!!
Your videos are so positive, cheers me up immensely.
Fasinated by the lost history of my home city.
Just over a year ago, I watched for the first time and learned about "mudlarking". And finding mudlarking is a thing, realized I had done it. Eight or nine years ago, while visiting a haunted lighthouse at Point Lookout, Maryland, my sister and I were on the foreshore of the Potomac River looking for sea glass. I have learned much since and would love to go back for another try!
Do you remember the pieces of blue and white China you picked up that had a family of mother and father and child holding hands, I thought I recognised it, it is a pattern called Eton college made by a few company's around 1820
14:13 That's the grumpiest old crow I've ever seen lol
yes really! you are right. He really is x
I think he didn’t want you to salvage the paintings.
Raven
I love Sundays and going on adventures with Nicola finding treasures in the mud.
I love Sundays too... on the evening I watch Nicola, then Si-finds, followed by Joolz Guides. Highlight of my week 😊
So love your adventures on the Thames, great to watch and very interesting finds 😀
Thanks James x
@@missyogiebear is someone watching me at home. I laughed, so I'm not the only one , but Si comes on first where I am,, then Nic, Then Joolz.
When the lead was extruded into H shaped lengths the maker would often incorporate his initials or name and the date in the forming machine. If this was done to your lead strips any identifying marks would be inside the H where the glass sits. Maybe you'll be lucky! See the latest Jamestown Rediscovered video.... on this very subject.
I was going to say the same thing. I’ve cleaned chunks of lead window came, always check for a makers mark. Perhaps the one piece of colored glass could be some sort of deterioration?
I enjoyed seeing that one bird having eel for lunch. The Thames used to be an open sewer and now all sorts of native species are coming back. Outstanding.
that was very cool.
Bird is a Cormorant
@@sportclay1 The Common Cormorant or Shag
by Christopher Isherwood
The Common Cormorant or shag
Lays eggs inside a paper bag.
The reason you will see no doubt
It is to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never noticed is that herds
Of wandering bears may come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
I’ve just watched the 1967 film ‘Up the Junction’ shot in and around Battersea. Looks as far in the past to our modern eyes as Dickensian London, an everywhere’s so filthy! Looks as though you’d catch something just walking the streets.
I shall have to watch that!
I shall put your thoughtful suggestion on my to watch list. Another time................
@@nicolawhitemudlark - It’s on regular rotation on ‘Talking Pictures’. Comes round every six months or so.
See also the opening helicopter shot of Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy’ (1972). Flys at very low level through a disgustingly filthy Tower Bridge.
@@velvetindigonight - It’s on regular rotation on ‘Talking Pictures’. Comes round every six months or so.
See also the opening helicopter shot of Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy’ (1972). Flys at very low level through a disgustingly filthy Tower Bridge.
@@AtheistOrphan Sounds weird and interesting at the same time.
I find myself telling you to look at something that catches my eye! "Oh! Look next to it! No left. Left! That's and old handmade nail!" Yeah, it was a twig. That is why you are the professional and I'm sitting on a couch in Minnesota. ;-)
Hahahahaha! Me too!! Lol! I am always telling Nic to look at the item next to whatever she finds too! Lol! ( : That's awesome! ( :
Me too!! In Minnesota I mean 😊
Minnesota here also S minneapple
Hi Nicola. Chances of the chain being used kn a Pith helmet chinstrap?
Interesting idea. It certainly looks far too delicate to be armour, and far too "clean" to be terribly old. Bit of chin strap from a bear skin or pith seems very likely to me.
I just watched a video yesterday about all the things thrown in the Thames during the great London fire. I wonder if sometimes you find one of them.
In a world of such stress and division, your videos bring me such relief and peace. I love what you do and the stories you tell. Thank you for everything that you are are and do. Happy New Year!
Thank you. Happy New Year xx
I always wondered how you traveled into London - and now I know, and what a terrific way too travel! Did you know that coins can be cleaned by laser? Astonishing! Nicola, I'm so enjoying your videos! That chain mail was a wonderful find for your day's mudlarking! 💛
The modern 10 kopek coins are brass faces laminated onto steel, the George and the Dragon versions are minted in St Petersburg. You will find yours will be attracted by a magnet.
I wonder how it became so battered?
Thanks Chris. I love the George and Dragon on it!
Thank you Chris. I wondered what coin they were & how interesting they looked. From an Aussie.
32:27 Si Finds explained that those Rings of wire, with a twist to close them- those were how they shipped clothing pins, all tied up in a bundle.
I just love the stories that you find with such simple things.
Thanks Lori. That's the best thing about mudlarking really - bringing the small forgotten things into the limelight
I'm amazed by the amount of interesting things you have found. Your videos are so fun to watch. I like how the viewers, like me, really feel like we are there with you hunting these small treasures of history. Thanks.
Wow interesting finds! The stained glass could be something that was destroyed in the blitz. The chain mail was an especially great find. Greetings and hugs from Oregon!
Thanks Karen!
Love your channel and of course the beautiful treasures you find. All the best from Michigan xxx Thanks Nicola 😊
Thanks Janis x
@@nicolawhitemudlark 🤩
I think I'd have to live under a bridge I'd want to cart everything away. God will link everything up one day.
I found your channel about three days ago, and have to admit that I haven't moved to far away from it. I have always LOVED history and think your finds [with subsequent content of where and who] was the manufacturer or the owner extremely fascinating!! You can add me in as a virtual mudlarker. Thank you. 😊
Thank you Connie! So glad you're enjoying ❤️
A Thames garnet would go nicely in that ring.
One of your best videos.you didn’t tell us anything about the “gold” ring. Thanks Nicola.
Dear Nicola: 1. Can you get help wit aging of the stained glass piece to give you further info.? 2. Tudor?
Nic, it was oddly satisfying to see you back on the foreshore once again, especially after all your trips outside London. Not sure why, but it is comforting to have you back in your element! Thanks for the journey back in time and for bringing the past back to life.
Thanks Steve! It's where I am happiest that is for sure! xx
LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU & Si!!! You make my Sundays!!!! I haven't posted in a minute about my Sunday dinner.... Because my Son Passed and was not in the mood... But...Today is Boneless skinless Chicken Thighs with stuffing, Roasted Potatoes and gravey. Keep all the Art work. Last Edit I LOVE the Templars because I know what they are about!
Thanks Linda! I hope you enjoy your delicious sounding roast dinner! x
Wouldn’t be Sunday without following along with you on one of your many adventures 👍 just the greatest 😊❤️
Thanks Tony. You're the greatest too! x
The Mississippi River is at an "historic" low. My son wants to go mudlarking. I sent him one of your videos, & he got hooked. He wanted a metal detector, so we have 1 of those (beginners level) to take with us! He's hoping he'll find the pirate Jean Lafitte's buried treasure boxes. I doubt that, because Jean Lafitte's treasure was buried in wooden chests. Wood absorbs water, as you know, so if there is "a treasure chest" he couldn't lift it!!
The stained glass people in your area should be able to date the technique and materials. I do stained glass work and certainly would have brought it out of the river. Awesome finds as usual. Lark on. Luvs from USA Pacific Ocean.
Hi Nicola, the stained glass was almost certainly from bomb damage during the war. If it was just scrap then the lead would certainly have been recovered as it's quite (relatively) valuable. If the windows in Tower Bridge still have any original windows then you may be able to see if your coloured edging matches.
My thoughts exactly. With the stained glass windows right above the find, same shape, diamond. We need to find out how much the Tower was damaged during German bombing raids.
It’s nice to be scraping along with you, like we are right there with you 🥰
I love this sort of thing! I wish my country had as much fascinating history as yours! Subbed!
When Nicola found the City of London Police button, I thought I could see a pipe bowl at bottom right of the picture, and I was shouting out to her to have a look, and jabbing at it with my cursor, but unfortunately she didn't take any notice.
Sorry I ignored you!
What great investigations about the things you found. I loved the story about Newstead and his life. Wonder if the artists of the pictures had bern painting on the foreshore and didn't like what they'd done so left them behind. Thanks for the lovely video. Watched you with Sarah and her husband earlier on their video xxxxx
Thank you Gaynor. xx
Real interesting historic artifacts Tideline Art historical Museum
Thanks Lawrence! x
2:20 - Strange to think that the Nat West Tower, which dominated the skyline for many years, is itself now dominated by other buildings.
yes, you're right! that is strange x
i was just reading that in the mid 1930s a fake beach of 1500 barge loads of sand were put in front of the tower of london by the bridge so that the poor children of the east end could go to the seaside, i believe it didnt wash away until late 1950s
Another lovely video especially the wildlife, not sure about the eel swallowing.
Thanks
Thanks Anthony, yes in Greenwich too families used to use the thames foreshore as a beatch! It's hard to imagine now really
My dad was born in bermondsey in 1926, and used to play on the beach in the 1930s.. he used to say he thought it was a real beach.. he would never see a proper beach until years later.. at 17/18 years, he was in the navy fighting on a famous ship around 1943-ish in WW 2.. Around, Tower Bridge it always reminds me of my dad, thinking he would be playing there as a little boy, for hours with his brothers and friends.
What a great vid. Thank You for going to such a historic area. I love all of the treasures you find!!! As you know!!! My Moms cousin was a Queens guard and I guess my English DNA really comes to the surface. Your such a great teacher and make history so enjoyable. Thank You again for sharing and do stay safe on your travels!!!
Thanks Helen. Wow, your Mom's cousin was a Queens Guard. That's fascinating. Do you have photos?! x
@@nicolawhitemudlark I’ll see if I still have it.
If I do I’ll try to send it to you.
Hi Nicola put that sixpence in lemon juice for a while, that would remove the incrustation, but careful because it is highly corrosive (especially if the lemon juice is in a metal pot, a tobacco tin, a halved soda can or such, it will be corroded in a matter of few hours if not minutes)
Great finds and stories as usual!! , may i coment that most likely what you found is not medieval chain male but a victorian copy that were produced in that era . medieval chain male was so expensive for one reason ,all the rings of the male were closed via small forged rivets or just weld forged to asure maximun strength of the piece that will have to protect its owner , no medieval warrior would ever trust a open ring male. cheers!!
Thank you, I think you could be right!
There have also been purses and little handbags made that way, I think in the 1910s or 1920s.
Button: Christ's Hospital School? In Hertford and in Horsham.
You might be able to determine the age of the stain glass by examining and researching the construction (thickness, material-lead, ect.) of the lead that holds the glass together. I am sure their must be some type of difference known to stain glass makers to be able to date it. Like the difference in old bottle necks. Just a suggestion.
Thank you. Yes, Im on the case! x
I’m no expert, but I do stained glass as a hobby. I suspect the piece you found is very old.
Today, lead channel (the metal parts that hold the glass pieces together) is produced by machine and then the “framework” is soldered together at the junctions with lead solder. The result is smooth and uniform metal framing with lumpier bits of solder at the corners.
Your piece though, look lumpier throughout…as if the channeling was made by hand rather than by machine. I don’t know if I’m right or not, but that’s my observation.
I can't imagine how chainmail would end up in the Thames other than someone falling in during battle. Exciting thought.
14:15 Everyone's an art critic! ROFL
I walk the San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate Bridge a couple of times a week and there’s nothing in the sand but shells and seaweed. Upside: there’s nothing in the sand but shells and seaweed. Still, I’m so fascinated with Nicola’s finds!
Get yourself a metal detector - the good stuff is *under* the sand ;)
The Benicia mudflats yielded vast quantities of antique bottles once.
Good to be seeing you well and vloging! Made my day,queen of the mudlarkers!
Thanks Norm x
Dear Nicola, as an amateur mudlarker, I would like to know whether you scrape a lot or just look at what has surfaced? Love your channel. Have a great day
Hello there! Generally, I dont scrape that much to be honest, but it really depends on where I go. I often go to places with lots of mud where it wouldn't be helpful to scrape. Now and again though, and in certain places, scraping is helpful x
You alloed to 7se metal detectors?
@@danieknoetze4852 they can use metal detectors but they're not allowed to dig down very far. Scraping is okay.
i will tell you who threw in the artwork into the Thames .... someone who CANT PAINT.. thats who 🤣🤣🤣
Wow great awesome
Enjoy
With Love from SAM
Guwahati Assam INDIA
Thanks Sam. Love Nicola xx
Thanks for another wonderful video Nicola, have an awesome week.
Thanks Debbie xx
I think it would be nice to have Nicola read me a bedtime story in her calm, relaxing voice as I drift off to sleep.......I AM BRETT
Guns, condoms, used underwear, voodoo ritualistic slain children, and some bronze coins of some description!
Hello Nicola, I often think, “Why don’t they do some scraping?” And today you heard my thought. And look what you found….a ring, coins, a bullet and there could be so much more! Those geese are growing nicely. They’ll soon be off on their own. Loved the cormorant trying to eat the eel. It would not go down, then it looked like it was swimming back up its gullet. But the bird won in the end. Very nice of you to offer the other half of the bag seal to the touring couple. Such a lovely channel with lovely people doing wonderful things! Keep at it and thanks for sharing.
Very interesting presentation.
That section of stained glass window that you found does have similar shapes to the upper one in the Tower that you showed. Did you find out anything more about it?
Ahhh, Sundays with Nicola ☀️
some lovely finds there, the chain mail is exciting!
- buttons, coins and that huge chunk of pretty stained glass!!
Would you think that a piece like that travelled far or is laying more or less where it fell?
Could it be from Tower Bridge?
from the film, you were on the south side, right? lots of modernization going on there, I can't even remember what was there before 🧐🤔
Happy info hunting, Nic 😊
hello from Denmark 🌱🌸
Thank you. yes, I was south side. I really dont know about that glass. It is an odd place to find it. maybe it was dumped there. I would like to solve this mystery that is for sure. I do wonder if it could be from Tower Bridge. That would be amazing of course, but maybe unlikely x
Interesting historical tit bits on the chains- I would never of thought of the army covering as relating to those chains. Nice work Nicola!
I love seeing the Canadian geese, makes me feel that a part of me is there with you, awesome lark Nicola, till next time. Stay strong. 🇨🇦🐘🍁👣❤
Thanks Marion - hope you're well. Hugs, Nicola xx
I like to think of Canada Geese as small, slightly hostile Canadian Ambassadors, out there bringing a piece of us to the rest of the world.
@@vickiekostecki Yes, perfect 🇨🇦🐘🍁