Alright Mudlovers here we are again
mudlarking on the foreshore which means
looking for anything old and interesting
one the tide goes out it's a beautiful
sunny day I think Nic might be down
here as well so together let's get some
luck in the muck
here we are, scraping and just found my first find looks
to be top of a toothpaste lid
its quite ornate, nice, 20th century quite cool.
interesting find there look, a little key
fob or something - quick swish (clean)
number five dockers tag ah nice little find
If i put that on my keyrings, that actually
clean up quite well over time it'll be
knocked around in your pocket that five
will turn up quite nicely
well it wouldn't be Mudlarking without a clay pipe sadly this one's
broken
but it's still got some nice decoration
might even out be a R.O.A.B one. Looks like it might have had horns at the bottom there
still um, probably not a taker it on this
occasion but still, leave that for someone else maybe...
This is the interesting find, at
first I thought it was piece of plastic
I think it might be bone
little bone find there
Bit unusual, got no idea what that could
be, could be a knife handle I suppose.
Maybe it was, maybe a knife went inside
there, it's a hand off a fork or knife
if you think you know comment below and
give me some suggestions what it could be
I'll double check what material it is
okay I'll put a little needle in it and
if it's plastic then it will
melt but looking at the way that split
there and I don't know that's sort of grain
effect it's either very good looking
plastic object...
It could well be bone, let's hear what you've
got to say. A nice piece of pottery
probably a Pipkin, a little bowl medieval cooking pot
post-medieval
I would've said really nice. Nice stop of a
flagon there, looks like it might have said
Cook & Son
probably Bethnal Green so we should be able to
find out if that pub was around, made
in Lambeth. by Doulton. Yeah nice big
flagon sweet. So it's nice and sunny
here the moment and I can't really see what I'm
looking out through the viewfinder because its so bright but I've just discovered this
little thing and its absolutely brilliant
it's an intaglio, and I'm not sure if you
can quite make out what that is?
Neither can I, I'm looking at the same
time as you this I believe is a Georgian
seal intaglio and they'll use this to
impress their makers mark
onto a piece of wax I believe or it can
just be ornamental, but now I'm looking
at it and it's definitely inverted it looks
like a man sitting on the toilet but that can't
be right... anyway I'll um
look into this further... these go back go
back to Roman times but they there were
sort of had a resurgence in the Georgian
times and what I do is I try and hold up
to the light and see if we can get a better
profile of it because this is
bloody fantastic see if that works
can you see that is it now in focus?
I don't know...
That is so amazing - can't wait to look into
that it could actually be Roman...
It looks lie a man sitting on the toilet maybe it's a man on a throne obviously it's not a
man a toilet because that'd be crazy but hopefully that'll show up
if not I'll show you some better photos
later on - on this beautiful day
we have a stunning find
Absolutely wonderful can't wait to show
Nic!
So look who's here it's Nic White everybody
and I just had to say hello to
her because I've got something amazing
to show her that I've just found as you
saw so let's see what Nic thinks - see if she
can work out what it is first and if
she's impressed
oh my gosh it's a little intaglio
correct yes isn't that beautiful, it is
it's stunning although I'm trying to work out
what exactly he is or she is
it looks like a man sitting
on a chair... or going to the toilet
That is absolutely stunning, lovely isn't it? yeah! and if you hold it up to the light you can see
you can kinda get a better view of how
he would have looked. That's gorgeous!
It does look like he's sitting
on the toilet doesn't it? Well they
made them in Georgian times as well so
it could... I don't know... I'm just surmising
it maybe it's like mocking you know
mocking it a little because they
they were obviously Roman first the
Intaglio - probably where the name comes from
and made them in Georgian
times and they
rediscovered them because everybody
fancied having one on a fob watch or a
fob chain or something like that I'm
not be sure of all the uses for them
and even seals to stamp wax in and stuff
so they're pretty cool find
I'd love to know the age. thank you I'm hoping it's Roman but again I'm thinking it's
probably Georgian but you never know so
yeah I'm well chuffed with that
So one of my favourite little finds here is
a printing type oops, as you can see there
and that looks like it's got, is that an 'A'... oh there it is,
i'm saying that it's probably an 'A', or is it a 'G' or B capital B I don't know
These ares really cool really like these finds and I'm actually gonna produce some
postcards with little sayings on with
these on so check out just for a bit of
fun and you can buy them if you want
or just tell me what you want me to
make and I'll try and do a a sentence by
a request
I don't know thinking about these ideas
all the time to get you guys involved
with it, you know there we go that's
another little bit of lead type used to
print the newspapers and stuff like that
books and whatever else back in the day
Well I've just discovered this - isn't that pretty
Dunno what that is... maybe a button I think I'm not sure if that's stuck or just fused
on there with all
the rust that's around that could be a
little flower-shaped button
Or a brooch don't know, probably would have had stones in at some point.
What have you got for me now?
I saw a piece or iridescence glass, and I thought...
Is it a bottle seal? And look at the
impression. Oh my goodness
I just didn't see I just saw that oh
that's just gorgeous!
Look at that! The imprint of
history that's right so let's have a
look at the actual seal isn't that
beautiful hey you know I found
thanks to this chap called Nigel
Jeffries right a fantastic database of
seals so you know it might be on there
cool that's my first ever one it's
probably a bit later I think you put you
off a case gin bottle or something but that's
gorgeous
Lets' see Do you mind if I give it a rinse? Go ahead. Look oh he's copying
me I found one of those the other day
bottle seals are great they've been
around they were pretty common from the
seventeen hundreds yeah it looks like a
bell I can't read it but I know that
Simon will tell me what it says later
it's beautiful isn't it, well done, Simon
So this is all Nick's finds he's had
up look, look at that what a plethora!
I found one identical, I found number five
That's got nothing on it though, oh has it no?
I think it has - very slightly got it's got an S it's
pretty cool - I like a juicy bit of shrapnel
Now that is lovely - look at that buckle - superb
Probably would've been off of maybe a shoe, or the bit round the edge
of the brace around your feet maybe
nice little Georgian oh yeah it's nice
George III - farthing. A tinny with a copper
plug bit mashed up but that would be a
James or Charles copper plug there was  to
prevent forgery. a ring! you did do
well didn't you!? A copper ring there probably
Victorian nice one doin leads Chinese
token
17th century type cool
Cory excellent
Wow
I thought it was the end of a spoon for a second
but... it's nice
unusual oh actually I think I can
see - is that crown on the top?
Ah it's got faces on it yeah two faces either side, it might
be a spoon or something commemorating
a marriage between two people yeah
definitely a face there and face there
that's awesome. A mini-ring - yeah it's cute
maybe a fastener or book clasp or
something little hinge there with a heart in.
A lump of lead, or trade weight or something
another random coin - quite worn. 
Or a back of a button
oh these are cool look, these are all musket balls with the sprues still on them
probably rejects or the last one in the mold they
didn't really want all the same though so
maybe they were casting them there and
then just binning them
Look at all that stuff, amazing.
Cool nail
and a Traders (token), that's a nice pronounced one
cross and pellet, a book clasp or hinge
or something there. another book clasp
would have been on your book.
A coin...
well that's great right yeah really cool finds
That's quite nice as well, another button
and another one - early Georgian one
Well done Nick all right yeah nice finds. That can go on the button website.
Do you know about that? I do.
So we're gonna record all these
all these buttons with they're makers
that's a Smith & Son, don't think we've
got a Smith and Sons so where we can add
that. It says something 'church'
on the underneath there as well 'Crab
church' or somewhere? 'Christ Church'?
C.R.A it looks like
I'll bung that on the website
awesome
and Nick just showed me finally the
little bit chain mail that he had up it's a
nice piece see where it's been rivetted,
excellent, it looks like a snake
When you forget your bag and 
have to go back and get it...
she's got it it's alright
Well done Nic! Nice sodden bag there, what's in in clay pipes and stuff? Yes...
I'm losing my memory, ha ha
So we're back up now and Nic's about to me show me this lovely pipe she's had up today that I missed...
This has got to be my yeah my find of the day
I think is a clay pipe bowl but it's got a
horse on it is beautiful they're always
like little works of art beautiful
Have you found one with a horse on before?
I've found lots
One with a horse head on the stem, one on the heel...
and one with a horse on the makers mark
Bit not one exactly like that? No
Well that's unique fantastic - there you go Neighhh
Shake it up baby, twist and shout
Come on baby, work it all out
You twist so good, twist so fine
