One Day Mudlarking By The River Thames And Here's What We Found 

This is my absolute bucket list item: mudlarking on the Thames.

Now I’m just imagining our distant relatives in a few hundred years-pawing through our *”Ancient Landfills”* and getting excited over finding an *”authentic 21st century plastic tampon applicator”* and speculating about the life of the woman who used it! …and it’s kinda tripping me out!🤣💗

I found the foundation of a house built with oak logs from the hunter gathered era or 3500 bc here in Wicklow Ireland in the bed of a revisor , the soil was eroded away by the artificial lake to reveal the foundations ,the roof would have been made of mud and wattle , there was a natural river close by they used for fishing , stone axes and the shells of hazel nuts along with scraping flints were found by archeologists that dug the site , when they moved on to a different area they burned the house , hence the charcoaled oak logs that were found and carbon dated to this time in our islands history.

This just shows how old that part of the world is. You find domestic waste older than a lot of Countries. Very cool!!

I got sucked into watching mudlarking videos through Nicola White. My favorite of her finds was the mini-onion bottle that she found all together, but in pieces, so she put it back together and it’s nearly complete, and gorgeous!

And now I have a new topic to binge watch videos about! Fascinating!

Thank you Dan. this was great and what a lovely lady Lara is, i was impressed by her knowledge and passion...

I like the way Lara finds things and Dan pockets them :-P

I love how knowledgable she is.

I had a permit for a few years and really enjoyed Mudlarking on the Thames, sometimes alongside Archaelogists and Mudlarkers. I found many pins, pipes, coins, pottery including Bellamy faces, even a witch bottle. Along the way, I learned a lot about the Thames history Excellent holiday idea, permits are reasonable.

What a fascinating lady.

I used to fossil hunt on the beach when I was young and when you do it for hours upon hours your eyes literally spot interesting things instantly and it becomes much easier. I look nowadays and I just see loads of stones so I have lost my touch (and my eyes are nowhere near as sharp)! You should do another video with Lara at some point, her knowledge is great and mudlarking is quite interesting to watch

I could listen to this woman all day, nice voice and lots of interesting knowledge.

I never suspected that I would go on this adventure when I woke up this morning. Very interesting.

Over here on this side of the pond I do trash pit archaeology. In the years before they had public refuse removal people would just find a out-of-the-way place on their property and burn all of their trash. Throughout the years everything would fall on top of it and grow over it and it would just become lost to time. You would be absolutely amazed at the things that you find on Old Farms from the 17th 18th and 19th centuries and even the early 20th century. A nominal but my absolute favorite find was the Kit Carson cap pistol from the 1950s. I found that when I was about 12 or 13 years old and showed it to my father and his eyes lit up with joy because of all the memories it brought to him. I still have it to this day in a Footlocker in my basement.

You Tube has a lot of Mudlarking Channels to watch 👍👍👍can promise it's worth your while watching them

Love these little snippets of history you can find in the most unassuming places.

Seems like a wonderful, historical day out!

Nicola White(Tideline art) and Simon Bourne(Si-Finds) have the coolest channels on Mudlarking. But they are so many more fantastic channels. Dan Snow is so handsome. Love from America

What a find Lara is! Wonderful guest. Loved it and made me want to get a permit next time I'm in London!

Some people know him as Dan Snow but his street name is "Deep Pocket" Dan lol. Great content

Great Video. I lived in Benfleet Essex when a child. And our Road was Unmade until the Late 1960's. When the Road was Layed or Sealed. The workmen would leave piles of Waste, before its removal. As a Youngster (Raggamuffin) we found coins, buttons, badges and Spent Bullet casings. I found 2 coins of Note. A Roman Bronze and a Half Penny Token. Issued 1766 by William Pitt. Details were Poor, but it Said, 'America, No Stamps.' Quite a Rare Token. Sold Recently on Ebay for Over $500 aud. To an American Gent..! It took the 'Internet and 40yrs.' Before I could Identify it..! Correctly. So I have an Idea of Finding history by Eye in the Uk Mud. I still have the Roman Bronze. An 'AS' I think..!? Enjoyable Clip and Pass time..! Cheers All, Kim in Oz. 😎

Loved that, and the Georgian coin was a sensational find!

Lara Maiklem, my first acquaintance and viewing of Lara, and she is fabulous, an abundance of knowledge and experience. A truly worthy follow-up for viewing of her work. ... and I shall. Beth Tennessee, USA

Wow. Interesting.

Nice 👍...

Great video, well done Folks, loved the finds, the roof tile that just maybe associated with the Great Fire of London is a wonderful artefact and the early clay pipe bowl was s great find as was the coin, have watched Nicola White mudlark shows and this was just brilliant, no wonder people get hooked on this hobby! Thanks for this, Dan does some great historic programmes and this is one.

That was a great show thanks

In Georgia, outside of Atlanta, I found all sorts of wonderful crystals. Carried a glossy brown buckeye in my pocket for luck! Once when we moved, my mother threw out "all those old rocks"! PARENTS, do not throw out your children's treasures!!!!! Find a buckeye and carry it!!!

Very interesting!!

Went mudlarking in London, like a typical tourist I had no idea I needed permission. Found a nice pipe as a souvenir. When I come back I'll play by the rules.

This was a good watch, thanks alot

As Usual Wonderful and Interesting.

Wonderful!

I could watch non-stop television of people digging things up

As a young child in the 1950s, we used to mudlark on the Thames. Unfortunately, we'd usually go home with little to show for our efforts other than nasty rashes from the cocktail of chemicals and other sewage.

Amazing!

done- Next time time in London I'm not gonna look for the grooviest new restaurant... I'm heading down to the riverbank! What fun. Thanks.

I want to do that. It looks very therapeutic.

Rumour has it there is a video on RU-vid that does not have Dan Snow in it. Apparently it has millions of subscribers.

Imagine all the stuff lost over the millenniums in Britain's rivers. Interesting bits from every period of history.

Used to do this when I was a teenager in the early to mid eighties all round that area. And yes very addictive and quite dangerous with spoil heaps (filled-in holes where other professional mudlarkers had been which you could sink into).

What a fantastic find that George II half-penny and it's in wonderful condition. Really rare to find them so good!

What a great channel this is.

How cool!!

My first tactile feel of history was picking up old bottles in my local brook. As they were embossed with names of the local brewers and mineral water producers, I got fascinated with finding out about their history. Scoot forward 30 yrs and I'm in Londinium on a visit to Greenwich, looking down at the foreshore. I spotted a stairway and couldn't resist having a look in the mud. An hour later I had a jam jar full of clay pipe stems and bowls. A few dated back to the 17th century. . . All artifacts in museums are amazing . . . But when you pick up something in your hand that was last held by somebody centuries ago it gives you a weird buzz. I'm not spiritual, but an appreciation of the people who have lived here before us is close.

This is fantastic.

I liked the film The Mudlark!!!!Irene Dunn played the Queen! It is on RU-vid!~ Alec Guinness is also in it

Amazing history to be found there enjoyed the video

"Scuffle Hunters, River Pirates, Night Horseman". These are great names, yo. Oh just got to the part where they say this. Anyway. Still great names haha. Ready to go straight into a tabletop RPG campaign.

im still trying to grasp that the old wooden dock remnants beside them in the beginning of the video may actually be older than my country.

Thats amazing

i mudlark on the hudson river in upstate ny. i enjoyed your video very much.

Lara is fantastic!

Nice video, very interesting!

“You need a permit” Ah yes, I had forgotten this was the UK for a second.

nice blundstones

As a child in the 1950s we would find lots of clay pipes ,some complete some from the elizabethan era, suspended in the mud at brenford which in those days was about two feet deep now all the mud is gone .

Lara is promoting the history and tourism of this great city. "You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia...but London is the Place for Me." (lord Kitchener-Trinidad)

I first learned about mudlarking from “chill Bill”. I was amazed and knew I had to go to England. I found Nicola and from her videos “Si-Finds” with his “Luck in the Muck”. I started watching Richard Hemery who is amazing at identifying pottery. I went back to England again and Mudlarked. I just love it!!!! Stupid Pandemic stopped me from traveling but I plan on going next Fall.

I love this, and want to try it on my next trip to England. Where do I get a permit?

They should start a romantic series with these two. He's charming, she's funky and a bit aloof. The professor and t he Mudlark.

An "Eighteenth Centuryist." First time I've heard it called that. I thought Dan was an Enlightenmentologist.

Awesome finds...can a foreigner get a permit to mud lark?

18:16 He has the Peter Griffen chin.

I’d like to try that bit it’s a bit far for me to go from Australia! I’d like to find a complete clay pipe, and I like coins also, but something really really old I’d like to find too.

My dream of life is to mudlark on the Thames

Sheeeeesh

Look how low the river banks are ? Imagine the greenery around 3000 years ago ?

I didn't know that Michael Bolton was a historian

❤🌠👍

Interesting - can see recently uploaded would be interesting to know when filmed.

You know in my aquariums when I mix sand and gravel the sand always slips through the bottom and the larger material makes its way to the top over time . Does that same principle apply to riverbanks and archaeological finds ? Will stuff make its way up through the surface thanks to liquefaction or is that basically just happening because it's isolated in my aquarium ? *Asking because there was a massive native American settlement near where I live and I've been considering doing a little mudlarking myself

RIP Peggy Jones..

I'm rapidly developing a "sweet spot" for Lara Maiklem.

Would you permitted to go with a metal detector? What fun.

They started to say what they do with the artifacts that they find you have to have a permit and what do you do with it once you find it do you get to keep it or is it taken and put it into a museum

Wonder if they allow the use of metal detectors?

I am just learning about mudlarking! I live in Canada. Can visitors to London try mudlarking?

Oh man they find such cool stuff, where i live you only find guns and small packages of drugs :(

There's all kinds of Roman coins in London

What part of the river were they on?

You got a loicence for trawlin through tha mud, m8?

Isn’t it illegal to keep 18th century coins? This is very fascinating though.

These finds are amazingly clean. I just wonder how this could be. Looks a little bit staged to me. Nicola, Sy and all the others have to give their finds a rinse, before showing close to the cam. Maybe they just had a very sandy spot without any Thamse mud...

What was the nominal value of the coin?

I hate whenthey say you can't dig. Why not find what in buried and put it in a museum?

Viking longsword. Did they not steal them off folk.

U know that coin was planted there for tv drama. ACTORS!!

Dan Snow, are you married???Asking for a friend!

You made the finds? That doesn't sound right at all

Straight in dans pocket

she almost had too much info sheesh

The most upsetting thing for me is as a lad who lived "sarf" of the river and used to spend time with cousins living in Lambeth Catching rats underneath the arches or skipping stones off the mud at low tide People do not understand the amount of Thames river access points previous generations had Because in the day before Motorways and Steam water was the Mass-Transit System and with potential future challenges Past knowledge May Help

I wonder just how polluted the river actually is ,anyone?...

Need to get a metal detector

You need more ads in this... :(

he sounds so mean to her at times lol, very judgy almost.

why didn't you tell us the date on the coin?

Can you imagine what could be found with a metal detector! It is a shame that the British Authorities are so narrow minded when it comes to "only" finding items on the surface. More British history could be discovered through more discovery.