A Very Rare Find of a Lifetime found in the Thames Mud fills me with JOY! - Mudlarking the Thames
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- One dark and rainy morning on the Thames in February I found one of my best ever mudlarking finds which filled me with absolute joy!! I had set my alarm to get up for the low tide but the weather was horrendously rainy, cold and wet. I very nearly stayed tucked up in bed. I then got stuck in traffic and almost turned around to go home. Im SO glad I did get up and that I didn't turn around and go home as I would not have found this beautiful treasure!!
Thank you to Alessio (@london-madlark on instagram) for filming the delight. Thank you to Phil (@phillygumbo on instagram) for helping with the ID.
If you would like to try mudlarking on the Thames you do need a permit from the Port of London Authority so you can check out their website for the details:-
www.pla.co.uk/...
Follow me on twitter and instagram for more mudlarking finds @tidelineart
Thank you for watching.
See you soon.
Nicola
Nicola White
www.tidelineart.com
#mudlarking #nicolawhite #tidelineart
Thank you so much everyone for your comments! I plan to answer them as soon as I can. Much love, Nicola xx
We also watched a video where you found a piece of metal and you said it looks like a man shrugging his shoulders ,me and dad think it could be a gentleman's monocle frame.
I love your Raven pendant. Where can I get one? It looks exactly like an image from the internet that I used in a stone carving.
Imagine the drunken person holding that bottle in one hand, with their thumb in the punt, as they drank from it, eventually finishing it, and chucking it into the river.
@@meinkamph5327 Your name alone, creeps me out.
Oh Nichola, I’m so happy for you, well done. You deserve every delicious moment of finding your onion bottle, made my day!
What a truly magnificent find Nicola.
I am a Londoner also, but now live in Hampshire and have been a Metal Detectorist for the past 40 odd years, I have also done the Thames Foreshore a few times also, but when I lived near London. Whether Mudlarking or Detecting the Fields, I still get an enormous thrill out of it and, I have also had some truly amazing finds over the years. I am now retired, but suffer from bad arthritis and struggle to get out and about these days, but I do still try lol.
I love yours and Si's finds and your Videos, so please keep them coming love ❤️
Do you know why I enjoy your channel so much, Nicola? Because it teaches me humility. I'm something of a know-it-all who often likes to show people the error of their ways. Your channel has given me a whole new perspective and knowlege about things I knew prescious little about before. Programmes like the Antiques Road Show feed my ego because I usually get my estimates right, but with your videos it's a hit and miss. Thank you for doing what you do and keeping me on edge!
Thank you! There's so much I don't know. That's the magic of mudlarking ❤️
Please never apologize for having such joy filling every cubby in your being...
I was in tears of happiness for you... Congrats to you and the need for you to seek treasures and take us with you..
Much love and friendship
#TIDELINEART
As a long time follower, one of the most appreciated aspects of being an avid
fan, is when you put a find in its historical context. Fascinating!
Hi 👋 how are you doing?
Susan from Shelburne here. The wonderful thing about joy is that it is contagious! I got so excited my whole family came over to watch the extraction! And, as an aside, I get great joy from the sound of raindrops hitting the water, and the sight of the various birds who join you on the foreshore. Thank you for including that in your videos. #Tidelineart
The best part of this, and all your videos, Nicola, is your excitement at finding the treasures. Your finding of the onion bottle, your excitement, and your joy are contagious. Thank you for sharing your adventures. I look forward to what the Thames washes up for you next time...
Hi 👋
Wow now that’s your reward for the bad weather and dedication to getting out there and sharing your adventures, so well deserved - shared on my little Facebook page, from Jackie 🤩🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Always, always, ALWAYS…enjoy your vids, and it is a joy being a part of your joy!
I COMPLETELY understand your joy and wonder; I think just like that….who last touched this and I’m the first one to handle it for centuries!
Empathetic cheers….and what’s the chance of you being out there in the challenging weather….at that particular spot and just having such a limited portion of it catching your eye! Blessings!
My my!As an antique bottle collector,this literally made my heart skip a beat! What a beauty!
Thankyou & Cheers!
Nicola, your absolute joy "floated" all the way to me here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Thank you for teaching all of so much each week! #TIDELINEART
I’m in A2 too!
5:46, "Sorry for the exaggeration..."?????
It is rare today to hear people speak with appreciation, enthusiasm, Joy. Never apologize for Happiness. You bring so much to others. We are grateful to share with you. Never stop.
Thank you ❤️
No exaggeration on the excitement....I share it... What a treat that you bring us along. THANK YOU!!!
Congrats on the onion bottle! Loving what you do! A word on the uranium glass... It may be the remains of a deck prism, used in the 19th C. A hole was notched in the deck and prisms were placed in to allow light to the lower deck. BTW - I'm a contributor to the Treasurenet 'What is it?' forum. We are arguably the finest collection of minds from around the world identifying mystery objects on the internet. You won't find a nicer group, that's for sure. Please join us or post up your unidentifiable bits so we may give you help.
Fascinating that there is a group examining mysterious objects...I love it. Thank you your thoughts on the glass- interesting.
Thank you. I shall do that!
If you know your Elizabethan history, you will recognise that as a 'SPLAT' of purest green, created by that great alchemist Sir Percy Percy in an attempt to bail out his friend Lord Blackadder when he was bankrupted by the Bank of the Black Monks, lol.
That makes a lot of sense! It was bug me. Thanks 🙏
Just watching your excitement when you realised that it was a rare onion bottle was very contagiousat least to me.
I would say this was for certain a real Mudlarking memory ,well done Nicola.
Another exciting vlog to welcome Spring, Here's to a fruitful one for you .I so look foward to "Larking with you Nicola.
Take care.
Cheers from me and Canada X
O.M.G.!!! I'm SO excited for you!! As you said ...
EXTRAORDINARY !!
CONGRATULATIONS, Nicola ... Truly A.Mazing!
I find it absolutely amazing that you can walk down to the river and casually find artifacts that connects you to the history of your country that not only spans decades but centuries.
Here in Canada we have rocks, rocks everywhere, we are one giant rock with a bit of green growing on it.
If you every get tired of finding timeless treasures and want a rock, not just any rock, but a Canadian rock, let me know I'll send you one maybe two - we have a few.
Canada ROCKS!!!
Can you send me a rock?
Swap you for a Michigan rock or a pocket full of sand
Every place has history. Canada has millenia of indigenous history.
@@lazydaisy649 I’ll send you the whole country, shipping is most definitely extra.
There's a gold prospector's saying: 'Once on the gold, stay on the gold!' Having been a gold prospector for a good 5 years I know this to be true, so I suggest you keep to this patch of the Thames because great finds can still be found. That wonderful old bottle of 4:34 is a great example, good reason to have GPS on your camera or a hand-held so you can return. Comments help build your channel, too! I'm cheering you on! My very best wishes to you Nicola, ~Wendi UK 🌻
Thank you Wendi!
Amazing! I am a bottle hunter in the western United States. We have never found anything like this. The oldest specimen we have come across would be late 1800s. Would love to see these in person. Very nice Nicola. Please do not stop posting. Love your videos.
I live in an old town near the railroad. My house is one of the oldest (1836) in town. A couple guys that have a club asked to dig up old out house areas on my place. Because the railroad was so close they found bottles from up and down the east coast, some REALLY old. Some of those old outhouse pits were 15'-20' deep and were used as trash bins. It is a place to look if you did not know about them.
I’m so happy for your discovery. I especially liked that you created a homey scenario with the bottle, pipe, turtle bone and wig curler. Who knew mud larking could tell such a quaint little story.
Keep doing you ❤️
You said rain gear and I heard Reindeer ! I laughed and had to play it back, imagine that mudlarking with Reindeers !
This melted my cold, cold heart. Your channel is amazing. Your joy just touched me so much, i was so happy for you. X
How funny, that song has been haunting me for hours till I read this.
Congratulations! It still amazes me how those bottles can remain intact 300 years later! Especially with all the rocks it was surrounded by. I just cannot comprehend how that thing is still intact!
......which means.... drumrolllllll.....that there are many more to be found
@@elsajones6325 is actually incredibly rare to find them unbroken. This is the first whole one she has ever found and she's been mudlarking a long time. Simon at Si Finds has only ever found one, and he's been mudlarking a very long time as well.
@@micah06v8 I have hope that before too long, there'll be a sizable collection. The picking is tedious and the area of search too massive to get too much done in a hurry. I think I could spend all day in an area four square yards. One pair of eyes and hands can only do so much. ...here I am, in the desert, in 105* heat cheering her along
Designed to fall to the deck of a wooden ship, and hopefully not break.
They don't make them like they used to
That cd was the best thing you've probably ever found and the hour delay sign I am very interested it and its not for use in the kitchen. I wish you well and I wish for the well being and safety of the English population, sometimes I worry or at least I started worrying ever since I found this channel. May the mud be soft and easy to dig..
Lovely to see someone take so much joy in discovery of a much coveted object! Well deserved congratulations to you! Wonderful to see your smiling face. Thank you for sharing ❤️
With all the depressing news of late it's so uplifting to see this great find and your bubbly excitement. Cheers from Sydney, Australia.
Oh WOW! So, so happy for you! How incredibly exciting and fortunate. As a child in Australia I dreamed of these finds on Nth Stradbroke Island off the coast of Qld. I found bottles, pipes, and all kinds of treasures from a time, long past. I felt your JOY! WELL DONE NICOLA! 🥰🤗❤
Beautiful bottles! Having had childhood experience of glass being blown by hand I can see the early skills developing between the two!
Thank you for yet another journey in your Tardis 😁
Dear Nic, Your gentle kindness, and enthusiasm helps restore one's hope for humanity. It is something the world could use much more of. Also, the way you put your finds into historical perspective is really quite interesting and entertaining. Thank you, and all the best. #Tidelineart
The chances of a glass bottle surviving intact for 30 years in a river is probably fairly low... for a bottle to survive 300 years in one is rather incredible! Brilliant find!
Yes! Exactly. - nicely stated
The river is kind of like a giant rock tumbler, it amazes me that any bottle would survive long.
I’ve just found a part of one today embedded in the hill in Scarborough!!
It wasn’t intact it was broken
4:00 @@TheThetechnician
It was so fun to watch and share your excitement! Your love of mudlarking, resilience against weather and dedication paid off. Loved the squirrel body double.
Simply amazing that those bottles survive, I love it.
Your "donut" is in fact a "Sheave" from a "Block" used on shipboard. Blocks were used for mechanical advantage in hoisting things like sails, small boats, cargo, etc. Part of a Block and Tackle system. The more sheaves in your block the greater the mechanical advantage.
If you read the Diary of Samuel Pepys mens wigs became popular in the mid 1660's and are well documented in his volumes. In his time wigs were sent out to be cleaned and rolled. It wasn't done at home yet. Pepys is a very valuable resource for history if that era. He knew all the imporent people from Charles II on down!
Being bead collector I have run into Uranium glass beads from the 19th century. They are pretty scarce these days but a few are still out there.
Such an incredible find! The find of a lifetime for sure - every mudlark hopes to find one of those!
So happy for you with your awesome treasure.
Well done Nicola! 👏 I couldn't wait for this video. When you posted it on Instagram I thought WOW YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. I saw your video when you found the first one and it took my breath away. You so very much deserved this beautiful bottle. Congratulations!
Squirrel doesn't like his new friend. 🤣 Cute 🌷 Happy Spring Nicola. All the best to you.
I'm so happy for you that you found an intact onion bottle! Great finds today! Much love from Louisiana ❤️❤️
SO so happy for You finding the BEAUTIFUL onion bottle!!! WELL DONE NICOLA!! X BRILLIANT VIDEO!!!
Mr squirrel even looked surprised when he saw the onion bottle through the window 🐿 great finds ,cheers Nicola 🍻
Wouldnt it be so cool to get an aerial map of the shore where you mudlark and plot where you find pipes, mugs, bottles, and other datable stuff on the map? You might even be able to corroborate the finds with historic maps… maybe not… anyway, Im from upstate NY and I love watching your adventures! It looks like so much fun because you have soooo many more historic years in your mud than we do in the states! I am a junk hound, a rock hound , and an adventure hound so living vicariously through you is so much fun! Thanks for sharing your adventures!
I love joining you on your mudlarking trips and learning about your finds and the history surrounding them. I was absolutely drooling over your onion bottles. Always so fascinating. Thank you.
Wow, you must really love what you do to be out in that weather. I love that you also show life going on about you. (birds, boats, etc.) I try to do that too. That's why we love treasure hunting. You never know what lies beneath. So happy for you and your onion bottle!
I'm new to this.... I find it so interesting. Love how you show us and give some history afterwards. Thank you! Best wishes from Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Wow you have great eyes! And your enthusiasm is contagious .Every small journey you find a treasure keep up the good work and thank you for sharing.
Hi Nic’ nice to see you. I was so excited to see you extract your mallet onion bottle. I was holding my breath! 😂😂 You deserved to find a complete one and it looks lovely next to your little reborn onion. What a fantastic day! Worth getting out of bed for on such a rainy day! Well done!😀
Congratulations on the beautiful bottle find, awesomeness, take care and thank you for sharing 🥳🥳👍👍👏👏❤️❤️
Nicola - would just like to say that I love the enthusiasm you have for your finds. Wish that I was able to do "Mudlarking" but I live in Louisville Kentucky, on the Ohio river, where it wis not feasible to do this activity. Keep up the great vids, love them. Mike Portman
As I was watching this I was smiling away with you! The joy was palpable Nicola! 😂😂 I have always got my head down looking for stuff, but here in Brum we don't have a river where we can search the foreshore. Vulcanite bottle stops are items I know I can find. I found a peice of Roman pottery when I visited a Midland Roman site, a rabbit had kindly bug it up!!! Touching history is something I have been thrilled at ever since I was playing in my nan's garden and I found a wig curler!!!! Thanks for sharing your happiness.👍😉
Stellar find, Nicola. As Josie of the mudpies would say: ONION IT!!!!!! Love the wonkiness of it so much. Be well from Washington state USA ❤️
Let's hear it for the great state of Washington!!!!!!
Tacoma native myself, miss it dearly.
OH My Nicola!! Im so pleased for you, I know how much you love your other onion bottle......... Thats an epic find, really really happy for you Mrs Eagle eyes!!
Nicola…I wanted to know what part of a good find is the most satisfying? The history?, the last person to hold it?, the thrill of the chase? Love the channel and your work, plus you are dare I say it, cute.
I don't think I've ever been this excited about a bottle! But your excitement totally made me so so excited for it as well! Such a great and special find!! Thank you for sharing it with us! #tidelineart
I love seeing how you spot things in all the rocks and stuff on the foreshore. It took me a while to see what you spotted. Then the excitement of the extraction and the history lesson. I love it all. I unwind at the end of a stressful day with your videos. Thank you for all you do! #tidelineart
I have a Dutch onion bottle that was dredged from a river in Guyana in the 1970s. It's a transitional onion, dating between 1680-1720 and it's in perfect shape. To watch you pull up these earlier onion and mallet bottles out of the mud is making me jealous. Here in the U.S., the 17th and early 18th century bottles are usually found in very small numbers and almost exclusively at archaeological sites, going directly to museums after discovery. Same goes for the white slipware pipes from the 1600s and 1700s. It's a miracle that you pull those out of the mud in excellent condition. The ones with the smaller, acorn-shaped bowls are all 17th century. We only find the Victorian period pipes in dumps here, which are more ornate, but quite common. Keep up the great work!
Brilliant Nicola and what a find the onion bottle was I was absolutely overjoyed for you and could tell by the excited sounds coming from you how happyyou were, I'm also interested in the round lens like find you found and also the pipage, great viewing Nicola as are all your videos , take care X # tidelines art
I can’t stop grinning n being sooooo happy for you!!!!!! You deserve this more than anyone else. !!!!!!!!! Angel mud larks are looking after you!!!! Yahooooooo.
I can just imagine Nicola running down the shore with her lovely onion bottle yelling! 😂❤️
I’m excited for you.
Félicitations pour cette magnifique trouvaille 😉👍
😍😮 I’ve missed several weeks but am so glad I’m back. This is definitely worth the wait!!!
Excellent finds, Nicola! You were definitely in the right place at the right time in finding that onion bottle! You will need a new dream find now, what will it be?!😍
Great OLD big bottle and I especially love the "One Hour Delay" sign.
You may remember me. This is David from Minnesota, USA. Congrats on your special find! I didn't know those type of bottles were so rare and valuable. Way to go. The good Lord saved it for you.
I love your enthusiasm and I always learn something new when I watch your videos.
I love digging for treasures on the river bank at low tide. Years ago when the refuse tips were unregulated my friends and I would go tip raking. I found some fantastic items. One day I found a human skull which I believe came from a hospital or doctor's practice. I took it home and emersed it in bleach, it came up a treat. I wanted to put it in my bedroom but my mother wasn't having it, so I put it in the outside toilet. The problem then was that when I had to use the toilet the skull seemed to watch me and this rather spooked me. The skull was quickly returned to the same tip and can now rest in peace. It didn't stop me tip racking and I found many fantastic finds. Sadly those days are gone as the councils are very strict now.
It was a pleasure to share in your "Onion bottle joy". Watching from New Zealand! The history just in the mud covered flotsam and jetson is astounding! #tidelineart
That onion bottle is FANTASTIC...but love everything you found :) Thanks for sharing that with us.
You have spread your joy to the USA and the state of Indiana .I have dug many privies " out houses " in search of old bottles & relics . I can't imagine finding the bottle you found . I never understood the tides and would love to learn . So #Tidelineart in hopes to read & study the book . Thank you Nico !
Yey! I've been waiting and looking for this video. I'm so excited for you and your finds. Well done!
#tidelineart
Great fun! I love the tribute at the end. My husband says THI was the name of a company that was involved in tags for fish (to be counted as they passed through the fish ladders here in Washington State). He doesn't know if they did bird bands. And now, the company has sold is is called Innovasea. Not sure if it helps, but it's fun to research stuff!
Please do not feel you should apologize over your excitement
Of your onion bottle find..
You have every reason for joy and in doing so encouraging those of us watching to have that same love and excitement for our passion.
So very happy for you...I would indeed love a chance to find a pipe. Considering I am from
a town in the Smoky Mts., Gatlinburg, Tennessee USA.
TO imagine having a pcs of history so grand.
Something that you can find so often or easily on the Thames.
I do believe if I were to be there and be so blessed as to find a pipe, my family would be able to hear my squeal all the way back here in the states..
Congrats on your fabulous find.
Love and friendship, Beth
Thank you Beth. Love and friendship back to you xx
You are a joy Nicola….thank you. 🌟
Despite the Cold Weather you are a Good Sport Nicola!
What an amazing find Nicola 😊🥰 I share in your joy!! X
I can hardly believe it was complete. What a find and especially for you. Hurray.
I'm always amazed with your finds and the love you have for saving and sharing the history behind each item! Thank you from all of us!
Hi 👋 how are you doing?
@@Godwinpounds4333 Good morning, all is well here in Florida
@@sandcoils4232 I’m glad to hear that. It’s nice meeting with you here. I’m from California. How’s the weather condition over there?
> i always love your videos #tidelineart.
What an amazing find today! So proud of the body double. You are wonderful Nicola. After enduring the nasty rain you find a find of a lifetime #tidelineart. Had to give double kudos to that one! Take care!!.
A recent post from Sir Ian McKellen made me look up the word "mudlarking" and I was thrilled to find your channel and learn what mudlarking is all about , how exciting ! I love urbex, diving for things, magnet fishing and metal detecting , this is just up my alley . Thank you !
I just found your channel and I thoroughly enjoyed this video! I saw you on another video with Si and you guys are right up my alley. I live in North Central Kansas near Lake Waconda and two years ago I discovered that this area has tons of fossils and my favorite ones to find are shark teeth at the moment. I love how you end the video giving us a run down of your finds and adding the history of the eras along with it. Thank you for what you do. Blessings.
Bless your heart Nicola. It’s so soothing and refreshing joining you on your excursion’s, escaping for a little while from the trials and tribulations of world events. We all love you terribly. Thank you.
Incredible how these things have sat there for so long. Makes you wonder what else is hidden under there that we will never find.
My dream vacation? Going mud larking with you. What great finds dear. Congratulations on your great finds. 😃
Thank you for sharing your wonderful experiences and knowledge.
I like that when you thanked the river for your onion bottle, the river waves rolled in as if to say 'your welcome' 🍾
I enjoy watching the mudlarkers at work at finding your treasures,( I just wish I was there with you! ) I also love you explaining each find that you share with us. #tidelineart
I enjoyed seeing your excitement at finding the bottle
#Tidelineart
One of my most favorite videos of yours Nicola!!! I am so happy for your find of the onion transitional bottle...WOW!!! I remember watching your first onion bottle find. So happy for you and a well deserved find!!🤩🤩🤩
Love from the old lady in Texas God bless you always and forever
I like your videos so much! What's amazing is that there is so much history just waiting to be picked up. My favorite finds are the oldest, usually from the 17th century. Thanks for posting!
Ann H.
Oregon, USA
I love the newest one. It is rather blobby out of shape and not beautifully blown. That is what makes it the cutest of the two
Thank you Nicola for saving our history!
I used to go mudlarking at Putney Bridge as a child in the 70's, but it was thick sludge..
Let me know if you ever do a special on the Wandsworth / Surrey Lunatic Asylum as I found out my great grandfather was an attendant there.. Not an attendee..!
Rachel x
Fascinated by your exploits. A short story for you. I was raised in San Francisco in the 60's and I learned to walk the hills and watch the gutters . on Rainy days or just after rainy days. I understood that Passengers exiting cars had their pocket tilted down so that coins often rolled out as they exited the car. On Rainy days almost no one would chase a coin down the steep hills. I made so much money my parents suspected I was stealing. I have traveled in several countries some very poor and I have never been in a place I did not find some coin .(from Mexico to Moscow )
It was quite a moment listening to your excitement when you found that bottle . Time to lie down I think .🙏
Well that rainy Sunday morning turns sunny all of a sudden.
Most awesome's of finds...
my rusty little city is only 175 years old.
But I dumpsters shoot of some incredible things a book from 1670 bucks weird spoon made out of a Danish coin from 1661 you got a love it history baby
Oh and a beautiful Valentine's Day card unsigned from the 1889 era it was in one of those old Sears catalogs just stunning,
So I know how you felt it felt good thanks for a great Sunday morning coffee with Nichola you're always missed when you're not there.
Love your videos Im sure out of 1.7k comments some one has said the wood wheels are from a block and tackle that's it. Love your videos.
Great video. Your enthusiasm is really infectious.
So pleased for you those bottles are stunning the patina!! X 💋
#tidelineart I so enjoyed being with my eldest son (21) watching your video together, I rarely get to see him and I enjoyed watching his enthusiasm as you made your finds. Onion Bottles Rock.
Nicola, your new onion bottle find is so spectacular! I am so happy for you. Just to hold something with that early history your onion bottle has. Just amazing to find it in such a good state. I do so enjoy your videos and have learned much from you. I am elderly now and not mobile, but I still collect antiques on Ebay. I just love history. Antiques of any kind bring such happiness to me. Thank you dear Nicola for all your wonderful videos and the happiness you bring to all of us. God bless you always. 😀😀😀
I love to read others perceptions of the world and nature thank you for sharing all the history.
Might I say, the music at the end was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for finding the best find ever!!! So incredibly happy for you!!
I loved seeing you find the new onion bottle and learning a bit more about its possible backgrounds. You always record your videos in a way that makes the viewer feel like we're discovering something right along with you. Thank goodness for low tides! #Tidelineart
Thanks Addie x