tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65373509481519272232024-02-07T10:22:49.691+00:00MudlarkingMudlarking on the Thames, LondonJuliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-63550285083123386732022-03-06T16:46:00.002+00:002022-03-14T18:37:20.886+00:00Walks for Each Season<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So what did I do after I 'gave up' mudlarking? I spent more time walking and published a book to share my discoveries - <i>Walks for Each Season: 26 great days out in the countryside near London . </i>And I've just started a new blog <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3126754826535194914/1208066541573842199">Walks for Each Season</a><i>. </i>although only one post there so far. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjr01j79-ov6X0U3Wa58AtbLOEZj0q-mURGzt80X8nkom5wk1jwTF6voTc4bHEblP6XmzRrIyzTSrLq8aQ0ZuDWhzkX1qKTWNMsUZAkXuwcZp3JEM1gXJpppVDMobNWjKdQddAiRE--BYWruGbaGY7qD6XNWL59o7Ael9yZuZ5ZS3z68re8R88N26Je=s842" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="595" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjr01j79-ov6X0U3Wa58AtbLOEZj0q-mURGzt80X8nkom5wk1jwTF6voTc4bHEblP6XmzRrIyzTSrLq8aQ0ZuDWhzkX1qKTWNMsUZAkXuwcZp3JEM1gXJpppVDMobNWjKdQddAiRE--BYWruGbaGY7qD6XNWL59o7Ael9yZuZ5ZS3z68re8R88N26Je=w283-h400" width="283" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walks for Each Season Near London </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;">Seize the moment, escape the city and fully experience the beauty of each season. These 26 fabulous walks, all within easy reach of London, showcase each season’s highlights, leading you through bluebells in spring, among poppies and wildflower meadows in summer, into the glory of beechwoods in autumn and to the breathtaking display of a starling murmuration in winter.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><ul><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">4- 14 miles </li><li style="text-align: justify;">Start and end at a train station</li><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Ordnance Survey maps</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Easy to follow directions </li><li style="text-align: justify;">Stunning colour photographs</li></ul></ul></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="Verdana, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span>'Beautifully written with a larker's eye for detail. Julia's carefully curated collection of walks proves that the seasons are just a train ride away from London' </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica, "sans-serif";">Lara Maiklem author of Mudlarking</i></p><div><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Helvetica, "sans-serif";"><br /></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Walks range from four to 14 miles, from gentle rambles
to ambitious hikes, and take you to stunning views, sparkling chalk streams,
lazy rivers, clifftops, secret beaches and ancient woodlands. Stunning colour
photographs and delightfully honest descriptions introduce each walk, interpret
the landscape and highlight what to look for – from flowers to fossils. Routes
are plotted on Ordnance Survey maps alongside clear, easy-to-follow directions
and each walk starts and ends at a station, so you can discover the gems of the
south east with ease. You’ll also find the optimum time of year to enjoy each
walk, how to get there, good picnic spots, pubs and cafes along the way. Which
makes this book altogether the perfect guide and companion for both walkers and
armchair ramblers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgX1kQ4dDlMjPOlDchu3rCKhBTofv9xnxnjEg5Wa3xDEXZFVaMwp0G-Am4D1ftRud4Tz9P7AgOGQVwZLAFqNUawXEqdAUmDVqHQgpKh8kzocMXQydoi4pQROhTdercmCcECRaMMC6jSRR_PyiVNgyD1QmEYRjUW1ST0FzrTrjL93XUGzuq2cXfiYyDU=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgX1kQ4dDlMjPOlDchu3rCKhBTofv9xnxnjEg5Wa3xDEXZFVaMwp0G-Am4D1ftRud4Tz9P7AgOGQVwZLAFqNUawXEqdAUmDVqHQgpKh8kzocMXQydoi4pQROhTdercmCcECRaMMC6jSRR_PyiVNgyD1QmEYRjUW1ST0FzrTrjL93XUGzuq2cXfiYyDU=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>
<span face="Verdana, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">'</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can order in any bookshop and many London bookshops have stock - see <a href="https://countrywalksnearlondon.blogspot.com/">here</a> for stockists - please support them! </span></p><p></p><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can also order online here from <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/walks-for-each-season-26-great-days-out-in-the-countryside-near-london/9781739986704">ethical online bookstore</a></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/walks-for-each-season/julia-smith/victoria-george/9781739986704">Waterstones</a> or </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Walks-Each-Season-countryside-London/dp/1739986709/ref=sr_1_2?crid=393QA5AZZJFDT&keywords=walks+for+each+season&qid=1645545305&sprefix=walks%2Caps%2C2305&sr=8-2" style="font-family: helvetica;">Amazon </a><div><div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p></div></div></div>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-25330585240770623952014-06-28T08:44:00.001+01:002014-06-28T08:44:33.890+01:00Clay Pipe with a Story<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Richard Carey, who knows a special pipe when he sees one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's always a treat to find a clay pipe with relief decoration and even more so if it tells a story.The shape of the pipe and its distinctive forward pointing spur, dates it to 1740-1800 smack bang in Georgian London. The initials of the pipe maker A and B straddle the spur. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A knobbly kneed actor in full flow appears on the right hand of the bowl 'D Vernon' arching above him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the left another kneels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adorning the inside bowl six figures sit in a decorated theatre box - are those hats?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd love to step back in time to Georgian London. It sounds a riot, with boisterous fayres, an explosion of theatre and music halls. Playwrights would quickly pen plays to satirise or celebrate events of the day. Actors and singers were celebrities. Artists would capture the most acclaimed performances in etchings, Staffordshire figurines and evidently in clay pipes</span>.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Strange to think there was a time when theatre was part of popular culture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only Vernon I can track down in this period is Joseph Vernon a famous tenor and stalwort of Drury Lane, here playing in the Beggars opera which took London by storm when it was performed in 1728 and revived throughout the 18th century.This doesn't quite square with the 'D' above, but let's assume it's him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prime minister Robert Walpole's concern about the rise of satirical theater resulted in the licensing act of 1737, which restricted the production of plays to two patent theatres. Each had to be vetted by the Lord Chamberlain. Non patent theatres were forced to stage drama interspersed with music, melodramas, ballard operas and burlesque, none of which came under the auspices of the act. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was also the era of London's Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, which sat on the south bank of the Thames. This side of London was slow to develop and for centuries boasted a string of establishments offering various entertainments from bear and bull bating pits and theatre at the Rose and the Globe. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bear and bull bating along the Thames C 1560 from Agas's Map (Wiki) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens began as a popular ale house in 1661 and experienced its hayday between 1730 - 1770. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Londoners were ferried across the Thames for the ultimate evening of entertainment. The Gardens were the place to be seen and were frequented by royalty, aristocracy and anyone else who could afford the shilling entry fee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wealthy could purchase metal season tickets, the engraving would change each season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The evening began with promenading down the Grand Walk having a good look at everyone else and presumably showing off a bit too, then wandering through wooded sections to the sound of nightingales and back along the Druids Walk to supper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fifty supper boxes each seating up to 12 surrounded the main square. At nine supper was served. As people ate a whistle was blown summoning servants to light </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thousands of oil lamps, a sensational sight in an era before electricity and one reason for the gardens popularity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entrepreneurial owner Jonathan Tyler commissioned what was then modern art including a statue of Handle the musical genius residing in London until he died in 1759. On Hogarth's suggestion Tyler displayed contemporary paintings in the gardens, Hogarth's support earned him a lifelong golden pass to the gardens. Tyler joined forces with Francis Hayman, friends and students from St Martin's Lane Academy and commissioned paintings of leisure, Shakespeare's plays and victory in the seven years war which ended in 1763. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See Saw Francis Hayman 1742 one of the paintings from the supper boxes at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (the Tate) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vauxhall Gardens was also famous for its music. Orchestra's played and new songs were commissioned. The singers became huge stars and one of the biggest names was Joseph Vernon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hundreds of thousands of people would visit each season from across Britain and from overseas. Seemingly Jon</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">athan Tyler and his gardens influenced the development of art and music in Britain spreading the popularity of rococo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> art and creating the first type of popular music the 'Vauxhall Song'. Songs first sung there such as Sally in our Alley and Delia remarkably are still known today, whereas Vernon although a huge star in his time is all but forgotten, leaving just a faint trace. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-73149320892588190302014-06-21T12:25:00.000+01:002014-06-21T12:25:02.240+01:00Farewell to mudlarking passion <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it's confirmed, I've lost the mudlarking bug. A few months ago I got up at 5am to catch an early low tide. Showered and dressed, suddenly the prospect of spending a few hours closely scanning patches of mud and stone was no longer more attractive than a few more hours in bed. On that occasion bed won out and back upstairs I went. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I'd failed to tempt my husband on a day trip, so was consoled with a mudlarking trip, family and art. I took along a huge bag of finds to return to the Thames. As I descended to the stone filled beach I realised I'd left the bag on the train, so my first task was to ring the British Transport Police to try and avert an incident!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The water was much higher than I'd anticipated so I had to make </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my way precariously along a thin ledge with the Thames deep and lapping to the side. I conjured up remnants of balance and courage from my youth. Fortunately I didn't fall into the muddy murk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was pleased to see Jason who manages to cover the foreshore in a flash and never seems to fail to spot the best treasures. For the next few hours I stooped and looked closely for the small and metal, but it's no good, I really can't spot them and spending hours with my head a few inches from the rubble isn't how I want to be spending my time. Perhaps if I struck lucky more often I would feel differently. It was the beach combing I loved, the gentle ambling along the shore, when pottery is your reward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite my grumpiness I did find a few nice pieces beginning with this magnified </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mouth end of a clay pipe stem, still retaining a bit of red from the red wax which would have tipped it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I suspect this is a piece of Roman pottery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An oyster shell with what looks like a worked hole, for what purpose I do not know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find of the day was probably this, one of the largest and nicest delft pieces I've ever found, it's almost the size of my palm </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and an unusual piece of delft tartan style </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Half a Bartmann beard and growling mouth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Centuries old iridescent glass</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lead cloth seal , with my clumsy attempt to show the markings by wetting them. The top row is D O and second row Z and I think F and then 16 at the bottom </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onto the more modern, a section of black clay pipe stem with lettering </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This English stoneware, possibly a ginger beer bottle was made by Burton's Codnor park Pottery, so it must predate 1833,as the business went bankrupt in 1832 and was then bought by Joseph Bourne. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a few bits of flow blue and transferware which were all just too cute to leave behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After almost 3 hours mooching along the waterside, I made my way over the Millennium bridge to the Tate, where I was to meet my clan. Each of us delivered via different nodes of our transport system, Blackfriars, London Bridge and Moorgate names rooted in centuries past. It was the third time I was coming to see Matisse. His cuts outs and paintings are so joyous they never fail to lift my spirits. A lovely morning was finished off with lunch looking across the Thames to St Pauls and the city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is rather sad that my passion for mudlarking is over, it was a wonderful feeling to be so enthralled. My heart would start to pound with the first whiff of mud, as I wondered what I might find this time. It has been a fantastic way of learning about London's history, without it I'd know nothing about ceramics and I'm delighted the different periods of history are now finally embedded in my head. I shall miss being in the heart of London and beside the river so frequently, but I'm sure I'll return to mudlark every now and again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have a few more posts to write, so the blog will trundle on for a bit longer and perhaps it will turn into something slightly different, depending on what my next passion is... </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-84875791602474311492014-06-13T23:24:00.000+01:002014-06-13T23:50:55.413+01:00Flying down the Thames <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When one of my dearest friends recognised that the cancer she'd lived with for several years was finally not going to be kept at bay, she sent me a text saying she'd like to take me somewhere special. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We share a passionate love of London and even after all those years of growing up, working and living here, it still fills us both with delight and awe. When she was first diagnosed with terminal cancer, I was determined to whisk her off to see all those London places she loves. Her blue badge and the amazing access our museums offer disabled people, meant we could take journeys through the layers of London, Edwardian, Victorian, Georgian to its crowded heart, a delight in itself. We wandered through the roman and medieval galleries of the Museum of London and drove across the Serpentine to park just in front of those giant edifices of Victorian collectors and slipped into the V&A and around its circle of fashion. There were trips to bluebell woodlands in the spring and talk of car journeys through Epping Forest's tunnels of autumn beech trees. But in the end we returned to what we'd always done together - just sit and talk and drink tea and talk and eat cake and talk. It had been lovely going out and about together, but the real treasure is just being together in a simple way. So when I got the text, I replied with that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, she plotted and the next time we met up she asked if I'd like to go for a trip in a helicopter along the Thames. Who could refuse that! Her daughter Suzanne booked the trip, to our amusement on Friday 13th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first treat was our cab ride through London, passing old haunts, the winding back lanes of Hampstead, the grand Houses of St Johns Wood, the dense green of London's trees lining streets and spilling from parks, and its people - how good it is to see all those people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The heliport was right on the banks of the Thames in Battersea. All three of us had prepared ourselves for a slight disappointment, that it would be very hot, noisy, over in no time. But it started well - there were only three of us in a helicopter for six. As we rose up it felt like we ourselves were flying, just the best feeling. And then London appeared before us in all its magnificence and I mean the whole of London. That huge Crystal palace ridge which throughout my childhood had seemed such a physical barrier between the suburbs and 'London' was just a small wrinkle. The photos are not the best but I hope give some sense of the ride</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lt was better than any of us could have imagined. So - it's the cable car across the Thames next.</span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-17270198110671687172014-06-03T23:08:00.001+01:002014-06-03T23:08:02.796+01:00Surrey Hampshire Border Ware <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pottery continued to be made on the Surrey Hampshire Border, with Farnborough the main centre. Pottery produced in this area in the 16th -17th centuries seems to be referred to as Surrey Border Ware. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pottery is still buff coloured, but more refined. Production techniques changed. The pottery was subject to two firings, the first to render the thinner vessels hard enough to decorate and a final firing after the application of glaze. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the mid 16th Century potters began to use a tougher type of clay. This together with improved firing techniques meant </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quartz in the form of sand didn't need to be added as a tempering agent to the clay mixture to add strength. Hence you can tell if you have the later shards by their smoothness and absence of 'black bits', as below</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ine table ware began to replace the large utilitarian vessels of the medieval period, so another clue is form type. Potters extended their range to include these unfamiliar </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">poetic names 'porringers', 'pipkins', 'chafing dishes' and 'fuming pots'. Porringers were used for foods which were eaten with a spoon and were often used to reheat food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chafing dishes were portable heating devises. Hot coals were placed at the bottom and a dish balanced on the lugs to keep food hot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clear lead glaze began to be used which turned yellow when fired, in addition to the green glazes achieved by adding copper. The glaze on these 16th-17th century shards tends to cover the whole piece, usually the interior and is more uniform than the glaze found on medieval pottery. These examples include the edge of a large platter and a shard from a colander or strainer, another two new forms for the border potters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other objects included money boxes,candle sticks, chamber pots and probably my favourite but not yet found, chicken feeding dishes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Germany was Europe's ceramic leader and at least one German potter settled in the Surrey Borders. This influence perhaps led Surrey borders to produce masses of tripod pipkins, a form popular in Germany. The characteristic small hollow handles are a reasonably common find along the Thames. A stick could be inserted into the handle to make it longer and of course less hot. Pipkins were placed on the coals at the edge of a fire and some recipes specified using an earthenware rather than a metal pipkin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you scoop up one of these finds along the foreshore, it may well have come from a London which looked like this, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This white pottery dominated London from 1500-1700 a period which saw London's population expand from 50,000- 600,000. It died out in the 18th century. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-44665677763059708202014-05-25T19:07:00.000+01:002014-05-25T21:22:57.559+01:00Medieval Surrey Whitewares<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought the mosaic might be a good way of ending this blog, but then I remembered my original intention - to create something people could use to identify the pottery finds they found along the Thames foreshore, along with their back story. Essentially what I wanted but couldn't find when I started out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The big gap in the blog is the old stuff. Unless you are an experienced archaeologist I can't quite see how you can tell the difference between different types of old white or red earthenware pottery, so I've put off writing about it. A visit to the Museum of London's finds identification session organised by Thames discovery and the usual internet searching, have filled me with slightly more confidence, although I expect they'll be a few mis-identifications along the way - but here goes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first clue is that most old stuff is characterised by green glaze. It was the first coloured glaze used in Britain, from the 11th century and achieved by adding copper to lead glaze. Not all green glazed ceramic is that old however, as it was in common use until at least 1700. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other clue is that certain 'forms' are associated with different periods, with jugs, cooking pots and storage vessels typical of medieval forms. Some venture the prevalence of jugs increased as wine became more available and popular.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the pottery is white, it is likely to have been produced in Surrey, from 1240 in Kingston a Thames crossing point upstream, then from 1260 in multiple sites along the Surrey Hampshire border and from 1350 in Cheam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pottery was produced in the Surrey Hampshire borders into the 17th Century. The medieval stuff is coarser with lots of 'bits' in the clay. Most of the pieces below have black flecks, which if you look closely are tiny pieces of quartz . The finds below are are all from jug strap handles, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they were frequently adorned with stabbing or slashes which were practical as well as decorative, allowing steam to escape from the thicker sections of the jug thus preventing fracturing during firing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The green was used decoratively on jugs and the glaze was used inside pots to render them non porous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last two finds are a decorative section with two different colours of clay, perhaps it formed part of a baluster jug similar to that below, a classic of the medieval period. The second is a frying pan or 'skillet' handle. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white firing clay didn't occur locally and had to be transported by cart or by boat the 25 or so miles from the Reading Beds near Farnham. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most goods were wheel made although a few such as dripping trays were slab made.When finished they were most probably transported by boat along the Thames to London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These Surrey Whitewares were tremendously popular and gradually became the most common pottery in London between 1350-1450. This </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was a time of plague with the Black Death reducing London's population by half to 40-50,000. Subsequent plagues and famines suppressed population increase until the early 1500s. It was also the period of the Hundred Years war a dynastic conflict between English and French Kings beginning with England's Edward III. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Money was required to fund the war stimulating trade in woolen cloth, an export trade centered on the capital, promoting further expansion in both the size and wealth of London. Even in these difficult times there seems to have been both the means and desire for people to indulge in a bit of consumerism, which included purchasing whitewares from Surrey, luxury imports from Europe and for the boys at least poulaine, those pointy shoes, the height of fashion in 1380 and than again a hundred years later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are few pictures of London from this period, but here is one I tracked down from the 15th Century with the Tower of London in the foreground and London Bridge behind</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and a reconstructed map of medieval London with its Friaries, markets (including Leadenhall, Poultry, Guildhall and Cheapside), early hospitals and the population of the waterfront by foreign merchants from Cologne, France, Bruges and Antwerp. </span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-63781027074056957562014-05-14T21:25:00.000+01:002014-05-25T21:23:23.074+01:00Medieval Anthropomorphic Jugs <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14.4pt;">Whilst some
hanker after pilgrim badges or coins, the find I'd probably be most delighted by is from one of these </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.4pt;">a medieval jug with a face on it. I rather like the 'proper' term for these too, a right mouthful, 'anthropomorphic' - which in this instance means pots with partial or complete depiction of human bodies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Apparently these jugs were very popular in London, the ones above were made in one of the main towns supplying pottery to London in the 13th-15th centuries, Kingston. They tend to be quite small around 12cm. Most jugs</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> depict men with beards and they often seem to be tugging or stroking them. Their meaning has been lost over time, I like to think they embodied some irreverent</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> joke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">As I packed away my finds and sifted through the old stuff, I pondered over one piece of decorated green glazed medieval pottery. I worked out the decoration would have gone diagonally - I wonder, could it possibly be one of those arms?...</span></span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-5747621998843115062014-05-03T00:32:00.001+01:002014-05-25T21:24:35.976+01:00Martincamp Ceramic Flasks<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This broken bit of pottery has been on the blog before, but it wasn't until the finds id session organised by Thames Discovery earlier this year that I finally found out what it was. Nigel Jeffries from the Museum of London Archaeology immediately recognised it as the neck of a Martincamp flask, amusingly Nathalie Cohen from Thames Discovery captured the moment </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thamesdiscovery/12360633564/in/photostream/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, with Nigel animated in his enthusiasm and me all eyes and ears and geekily taking notes! </span><br />
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Martincamp in Normandy France, although it’s thought these vessels were
produced across a larger area in northern France, allegedly just for export. Unsurprisingly it's a type of 'Normandy Stoneware'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The internal messiness is rather at odds with the rather polished outward appearance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flasks would have been covered in a wicker casing, similar to the bottle in <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #171717;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Lubin Baugin's painting below ca. 1610–1663. Apparently they were used as water bottles by field workers and soldiers, slung over their backs using a strap attached to the wicker. It's surmised that a wicker base would have enabled the bottle to stand up. I wonder if the roundness of the bottle made it stronger, like an egg. At the very least a nifty design with no easily bashable edges and wicker padding to boot. They were also much cheaper than glass. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the 'signs' of a Martincamp canteen is the rings around the neck. Are these really caused by the imprint of the wicker or are they the potters throwing rings? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I finally cleared away my finds, which had crept onto every surface in the shed, I spotted what looked like another neck of a Martincamp flask, this time earthenware. Still, I suspect if not rare they are a fairly uncommon find along the Thames - but perhaps I'm wrong?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are apparently three diabetes</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> type categories for these vessels (John Hurst 1986)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1500- 1600 dark brown stoneware with a more globular form with one side slightly flattered and the other side breast shaped (Type II) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1600-1700 earthenware usually a low fired orange colour, but can be fired to near stoneware and appear reddish orange. (Type III)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the century when England was ruled by our most famous Monarchs Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the time of Shakespeare, the Spanish armada, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when potatoes came to Britain. It was the period when L</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ondon became established as a great port which was accompanied by a trebling of the London population from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">60,000 in 1500 to 190,000 in 1600, the average size of a London borough today. </span><br />
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<br />Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-58552103251389144792014-04-27T10:40:00.001+01:002014-05-25T21:24:56.599+01:00Cistern Bung Holes <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is for Facebook's London Mudlarker who has given up asking me to post on bung holes. Revealing our ultimate nerdiness. Not a great deal to say about these, part of the reason for the delay - but LM here you are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From time to time I've noticed largish earthenware shards with a hole surrounded by another piece of applied clay. Not all that appealing or interesting but certainly a 'type' so I decided to take one home with me, intending to work out what it was some time later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably the most interesting thing about them is that they are very old and still hold the original potter's thumb indentations. Many will be medieval and others will be from the Tudor period. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some commentators speculate that their increase in the 15th century was due to an increase in home brewing and the popularity of beer. </span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-81943689510675641262014-04-17T23:01:00.000+01:002014-05-25T21:25:17.195+01:00Finished <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seven months later and it's finished. Hour upon happy hour ensconced in the shed, slowly assembling this manifestation of mudlarking passion. Immersed in music in a way I haven't had the luxury of doing since I was a teenager, from opera to Rudimental, I've been in heaven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whilst the mosaic is essentially a copy of Emma Bigg's mudlarking mosaic, as I became more confident I've gone off piste, keeping religiously to her pattern but improvising. The most daring is this central slash of green glazed shards surrounding a wave of glass bottle tops and bottoms, some possibly dating from the 16th Century, although more likely from 17th century onwards. The oldest thing on the board is probably a deeply incised section of strap handle likely to have been made in Kingston in medieval times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to slip in a few mudlarking classics. No mudlarking mosaic could be complete without a gurning Bartmann face, slotted in another section of salt glazed stoneware, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">originating from one of these. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tucked in a corner above the creamware teapot spouts is the foot of a pipkin or skillet, still dusted with smoke from the charcoal it sat upon hundreds of years ago, with a smidgen of green glaze, the earliest form of coloured glaze used in Britain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />It perhaps graced the bottom of a vessel similar to this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elsewhere are the tops of green Tudor pottery money boxes used to collect entrance fees to theatres and some archetypal naive hand painted delft patterns, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />probably made in London and likely to have come from dishes akin</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A mudlarking mosaic didn't seem quite right without one more section of delft, this time </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the more unusual polychrome type.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cat's paw print caught forever in a medieval tile is fenced in by twisted creamware handles, possibly from a teapot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Or perhaps from something really posh like this punch pot or a Wedgwood melon tureen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right at the top are those marvelous shards of iridescent glass you find along the Thames, their patina the sign of glass aged by several centuries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tantalising snatches of writing on stoneware give clues to their story, a collection of ink pots, German mineral bottles, a Whites lemonade bottle and a few mysteries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The early morning sun flooding through the shed windows illuminates the bottoms of three delft drug jars from the 17th century </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">interspersed with large sections of dining plates, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />jars which would have looked something like this, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />So here it is, propped up against the shed wall. Fragments from around 1,500 objects belonging to 1,500 people living in London or visiting, over 7 centuries. Some treasured some hardly noticed, between them travelling hundreds of thousands of miles, telling stories of trade, human innovation and technical advancement, fashion and our desire for beautiful things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-7321808365318286132014-02-08T09:00:00.000+00:002014-05-25T21:25:40.548+01:00Mudlarking Mosaic - 3/4 way through<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visually this pipe section would have looked better if I'd orientated the pipes so they cascaded in a more higglety pigglety way with their bowl mouths open to the viewer, as in Emma Bigg's original mosaic. Instead illuminating the history won out. Lined up in date order lie</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 50% of the types of clay pipe produced. Starting with the small ones from the 1610 on the right and ending with the large spurred pipes made until the 1840s, positioned so it's easy to see their development over the centuries. Their spurs, different types of feet with or without initials are all exposed. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I couldn't quite bring myself to cement in any of my decorated relief pipes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then the view from the top, which once on the wall will never be seen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rather chuffed how this line of Westerwald turned out, its deep cobalt blue creating such a strong impression. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The epitome</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of German domination of 17th and early 18th Century European ceramics, with its precise moulded reliefs and careful incised patterns executed by hand and perfectly glazed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Westerwald shards most likely came from tankards and jugs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again copying Ms Biggs mosaic, I've included a row of large chunks of 19th century utilitarian English stone</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ware, the remains of ink bottles and other storage vessels. The impressed writing reveals a Derbyshire bottle produced by Bourne (a longer post on this can be found <a href="http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/derbyshire-stoneware-ink-bottle.html">here</a>) and the neat lettering of Stephen Green's Imperial Pottery in Lambeth, the centre of English saltglazed stoneware pottery from the mid 17th - mid 19th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>'The imperial pottery in Princes Street Lambeth places Mr Stephen Green amongst the foremost.. The variety of its productions comprises jugs, garden vases and figures, water pipes, filtering machines and vessels for chemical purposes..About seventy persons are employed on the premises; and the consumption of materials amounts to one thousand tons of clay, one hundred of sand, twenty tons of burnt flint and Cornwall stone, twelve tons of salt and eight hundred tons of coal annually...The business was begun nearly 60 years ago' (E W Brayley 1841).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hand painted blue and red laced with gold, Japanese Imari porcelain (1650-1750) is scattered through this next section.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A previous post about its history can be found <a href="http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/imari-porcelain.html">here.</a></span><br />
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<br />Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-86317035126278528762014-02-03T16:35:00.001+00:002014-02-03T21:07:27.954+00:00Hammered Coins<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally I seem to be getting the knack of finding the small and metal. It's true what the other mudlarkers say, you just need to get down on your knees and search small patches of foreshore. It was the first time I'd brought along proper knee pads and this time I made myself search for a couple of hours. Previously I'd got a bit bored, preferring the ambling of beach combing. I'm also shocked by how difficult I find the systematic searching (with my eyes) between all the pebbles and muck. It takes a lot of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">concentration. I often find myself drifting off and not really looking, similar to reading the words in a book but not taking in the meaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was rewarded though with this tiny (around 1cm) paper thin medieval silver penny. The surround has disappeared, either eroded over time or slivers of the valuable silver were snipped, a common practice in this era. The surround holds the writing used to date these coins,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> so I suspect this one is impossible to date. I believe it could be anything from 1300-1500. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met Nick, mudlarker for 35 years, on the foreshore yesterday who kindly tried to id the coin for me. Apparently up until Henry VIII they didn't go in for likenesses, so a stylised crowned and wavy haired king stares out from the front on all of them. A cross sections the reverse, three dots cluster in each section </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (or pellets as they called by the numismatists). In this instance there is a rose shape with a dot in the middle, the 'proper' term is quatrefoil which means 'four leaves' - what a surprise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coins with quatrefoil seem to be less common. I've found a few similar coins on the net and posted a couple below, one is from Richard II another Edward IV, another Henry IV and V and quite a few from Henry VI, so clearly the flower thing doesn't help much in dating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's difficult to estimate the value of a penny in today's money. However, according to Wiki answers 6 pennies bought you a sheep in medieval times. A penny would buy you roughly what £10-£15 will buy in today's money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early medieval period each large town had their own moneyer, but as time went on fewer and fewer cities minted coins, until eventually they were all minted at the Tower of London. By the middle of the 17th century hammered coins were no long made, as machined made milled coins became the new currency. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-11428415884128196642014-01-24T22:01:00.000+00:002014-01-24T22:15:45.873+00:00Stuck at home not mudlarking <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rain and being a responsible mother is keeping me away from the Thames for a good month. Growl. So as I'm not in the shed mosaicing tonight and a bunch of big teens have commandeered the TV room I'll spend a while finishing off this post with a few finds from my last mudlark. The first is part of a cartouche from a bellamine jug. Interestingly London Mudlark found one very similar shortly after I picked this up. Someone ventured it bore Amsterdam's coat of arms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very worn decorated pipe, the same ghostly sleep walking figure appearing on both sides. There are surprising few pictures of decorated pipes on the web so have not a clue what this might be, hoping Richard might be able to help out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just love this large chunk of green glazed pottery. I'm always rather moved by seeing the decoration someone has pinched with their finger tips hundreds of year ago. It is unusually refined, does this mean it it was produced in France or is it the more recent (1550-1700) Surrey Hampshire Border Ware? I really am rubbish at identifying the different types of green glazed ceramic, so I'll be taking this down to the Thames Discovery identification session on 4 Feb for some expert advice from Jacqui Pearce the pottery czar from the Museum of London Archaeology. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.479999542236328px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally the oldest pipe I have ever found 1580 - 1620, it's weeny and next to a whopper from the 1770s. </span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-30870452027791803812014-01-03T20:05:00.001+00:002014-01-03T21:45:12.032+00:00Mudlarking Mosaic - Half Way There<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a child I knew every picture in every book in my childhood home, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">every object in every cupboard,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">every ornament in my grandparent's house</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was particularly captivated by detail and if there was some secret to be found in an image even better. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's been enjoyable piecing together sections of mosaic with a few secrets of their own. In one section close inspection reveals the relief tongue flicking and roaring lions of Westerwald jugs and chamber pots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Produced in Germany from the 16th Century. They were imported to England in volume. These little beasties were probably impressed between 1650 - 1700</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More intricate details can be found in the sections of salt glazed stoneware, largely originating from medallions on Bartmann Jugs again imported in huge quantities from Germany, often holding wine. By 1600 100,000 pieces of German Stoneware were imported into Britain a year, when the population of London was only 200,000 and Britain's population was under 5 million. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A watery mosaic needs a few boats, in this instance topped by a sky of small shards of flowered flow blue, a type of transfer ware where the cobalt blue 'flows' into the white body, produced from 1820.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next onto the really tricky bit, well tricky if you don't possess or haven't found the right equipment to cut clay pipes in half or in sections. Unfortunately very easy to shatter, so these sections take ages, but I love their effect. No credit can come to me as again I'm just copying Emma Brigg's mosaic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did manage one innovation however. I couldn't have created a mudlarking mosaic without mother of pearl, found in abundance in one section of the foreshore. There must have been one or more workshops set up along the Thames to inlay the mollusc's creamy secretions into furniture or jewelry. The photo doesn't quite do it justice as you can imagine when it catches the light it's blooming lovely. The long ribbon of pipes and cream ceramic above took a mind boggling three days to put together. </span><br />
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Jason and linked up with London Mudlarker. A lovely lead cloth seal, my find of the
day,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">softened the blow of losing my
first ever jetton a few weeks ago. It had slipped through a hole in my bag.
That will teach me. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he small and metal
require</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a different storage strategy,
the casual bung them in a plastic bag will no longer do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately the jetton hadn’t washed away and was found a
week later by one of the Thames Discovery crew. So you can fully commiserate
with my loss, you can see it in all its glory via <a href="http://www.thamesdiscovery.org/frog-blog/ship-penny-find">this link.</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and was the decade when William Caxton established his printing press in London. There were 3 million people in England. </span><br />
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by breaking the pottery money box. It is thought these small globular vessels gave their name to the 'box office'. </span></div>
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shell edged pearlware for the mosaic. I hope to spend a few days over the
holiday period ensconced in that shed, a hectic period of work having enforced a
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we gazed at St Pauls and
watched a traditional tug boat pull it’s load of yellow metal crates up the river, we eulogised about London. We’re both
so pleased that this mudlarking passion
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to weave
through the back streets and alleys to Moorgate. Slanted winter light
misted side streets . Every few minutes I came across another slender white
church, slices of old London preserved between
rising walls of ultra modern office blocks. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was busy with city workers on
their way to Christmas lunches.
Restaurants were full of large sedate groups, a few brave enough to wear
their paper crowns in primary colours. Tables were laid with Christmas crackers
and big wine glasses ready to welcome the next party. Enormous baubled Christmas
trees stood behind the sheets of curved class which show off those minimalist
cavernous company entrances. They almost softened them. Christmas really is the
only festival London fully celebrates. Up to now I hadn’t felt the slightest
bit Christmassy, but something stirred in me as I wandered through those narrow
streets with all the Christmas glitter. Decided to come back one evening to
really soak up the romance of London at
Christmas. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-37889470779243546992013-11-23T23:44:00.000+00:002014-01-03T21:45:26.385+00:00Mudlarking Mosaic - a quarter of the way through. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are around 90 sections in this mosaic and I'm about a quarter of the way through. Fortunately it continues to be a pleasure and I become so absorbed I enter into what the psychologists call 'flow', the road to a happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning with another of my favourites, Chinese export porcelain. So as not to feel too much of a vandal I tried to keep snipping to a minimum so it was a a jigsaw puzzle task. The first are my larger pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This stuff was imported to Europe from around 1550 and declined in popularity from the late 18th century when Staffordshire ceramics became de rigueur. A </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">longer post can be found </span><a href="http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/chinese-export-porcelain-1556-today.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here.</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first handle less tea bowls were made of Chinese export porcelain and captured in several eighteenth century family portraits. Did they end up in the Thames?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese export porcelain also features in those lovely dutch still lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chunky shards with the seaweed patterns of Mochaware produced from 1792 - 1850 are squashed into the next</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> section. A previous post on Mochaware can be found <a href="http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/mocha-wear-1792-1850.html">here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first pottery I spotted along the Thames was Staffordshire Combed Slipware. I assumed it was Victorian and amazed when I found out it could originate from 1690 - this was the pottery that started my fascination with the Thames and the secrets it holds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another ceramic from Georgian England, banded or annular ware from 1770s - 1840 covered in more detail <a href="http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/annular-or-banded-ware-1770s-1840.html">here.</a></span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-55928219115032123002013-11-16T13:50:00.000+00:002013-11-16T13:50:19.511+00:00Another early mudlark<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a few finds from my last mudlark. It was good to meet two other early mudlarkers Teri and Jason. This little transfer picture from the bottom of a bowl was my first find. I believe brown was used in transfer ware from 1809.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bit battered and worn, but you can still make out the birds with open wings which decorate either side of this clay pipe from the nineteenth century. Apparently this design is called the spread eagle, although presumably referencing the stance rather than the species as the neck, beak and legs seem far too long for an eagle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the mid nineteenth century there was a least one maker of iron tobacco</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> pipe moulds in London, so the same designs were produced by different pipe makers across the county. This one was a popular 'type' and produced in many forms especially in Sussex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spine is perhaps the best preserved, the wing tips and tail feathers meeting the splayed run of leaves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a very distinctive pipe makers mark on the spur, which I haven't been able to match with a specific producer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rather lovely hand painted tree, probably late 18th Century. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This little object (around 2cm square) appears to be a small mould, not quite sure whether it is clay or stone. What was it for I wonder?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't usually put up pictures off all the ceramic shards I squirrel away, but thought I would this week</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the rest of them from left to right </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bartmann Beard and then a bit of Bartmann face German salt glazed stoneware 1550- 1700, black transferware</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delftware, Imari Porcelain from 1650, Westerwald Stoneware Lion probably around 1675.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delfware probably from a drug jar 1600-1700, hand painted pratt ware colours, Westerwald 1675 and two other hand painted shards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and find of the day, which was Jason's not mine, large (around 15cm in length) carved stone with what seems to be the remains of render or plaster. Is it medieval? One for the Museum of London to look at. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly my favourite, balanced on the tip of my finger, a very small mudlarking china man </span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-10395898081812844362013-11-08T20:55:00.000+00:002013-11-08T20:55:43.246+00:00Mudlarking Mosaic - progress<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every spare hour I've had I've skipped out into our shed, flicked on the fairy lights and CD player and lost track of time pondering, snipping and shuffling ceramic. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pleasure is deepened when the rain hits the corrugated iron roof and the wind gusts outside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here are the first results. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started off with the relief moulded surrounds of Staffordshire white salt glazed stoneware plates, first produced in block moulds in 1740. They were the first home made refined tableware which didn't chip (unlike delftware). Expensive but I assume cheaper than the imported Chinese porcelain and very fashionable in their day. Standards patterns were used to decorate the edges, 'barley' or 'basket' and the 'dot, diaper and basket' all of which are in the section below, the 'feather' design I've used elsewhere. By 1750 white salt glazed stoneware caused the demise of the delftware industry, but by 1760 it was itself superceded by creamware and pearlware. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The age of this stuff is brought home when you realise the people eating off these plates wore wigs, corsets, lace caps and big satin dresses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In keeping with mosaic design I'm plagiarising, on the right I laid out a more textured section using the bottoms of bowls and plates, a mixture of white salt glazed stoneware, porcelain and creamware. My first veer away from the mosaic I'm following is the central section which is comprised of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one of my favourites, debased scratched blue stoneware produced from 1765-95. Inky cobalt dissolves across the edges of the incised abstract leaves and flowers. Again very fashionable but it seems only for a short period. The bottom shard on the left has just a weenie bit of a medallion, a little secret tucked away in the corner of a rectangle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then onto modifying my original wave of blue shell edged pearlware, easy to find along the foreshore as it was produced in volume from 1780 -1840. It was relatively cheap and consequently owned by most reasonably comfortable households across England and the States. The name derives from the scallop like edge mouldings which in earlier versions were carefully painted with blue in downward brushstrokes, in later cheaper versions pottery workers cut corners and just painted a stripe of blue along the edge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately I haven't enough of the white and blue slip bands which sometimes decorated mocha ware jugs, what a shame - I'll have to keep mudlarking. Mocha ware is less old dating from between 1792-1850, taking us into Victorian London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and fashions were rather more relaxed and comfortable although still look so different from our times - it seems strange they would be in possession of a 1950s looking jug. </span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-17427822781503190682013-11-01T21:10:00.000+00:002013-11-02T09:41:02.206+00:00 Werra slipware, from Germany 1550-1650<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
thought I’d identified most of the decorative pottery you can find along the
Thames, so I was thrilled to find a new type. It was a treat to be back in detective mode, the UK finds database gave me the first lead - ‘werra slipware’. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">It was
this unusually large shard which prompted me to search </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">and interesting to find a dish which had a similar boarder design. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Werra Slipware was produced in Germany in potteries
along the Werra River between 1550 – 1650. It was widely exported from the port
of Breman and has been found in quantities in the low countries, North America
and East and Southern England where finds
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Red bodied earthenware was decorated with a distinctive pale greenish yellowy slip - a thin clay mixture. </span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The decoration tends to follow a standard format divided into zones. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Dashes and lines were quickly struck around the rim of the plate. The potter then expertly looped thin bands of slip spiraling inwards. A wide </span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">band of swirls and squiggles forms a boarder followed by another set of bands which frame a central motif. Rather random bright green splashes of copper oxide provide highlights in the centre and surrounding areas. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Werra Slipware Plate with Pig/Boar 1615 (Museum Rotterdam) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The central drawing is skillfully etched into the slip, a technique called sgraffito. Being a Werra potter was a tricky business, there was no room for error or second goes. Any mistake would be obvious. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Animals or figures usually filled the centre. I love these confident, naive, bold, quirky pictures. I can't help think of our wonderful Grayson Perry (whose current Reith lectures on art are not be missed, link <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03969vt/The_Reith_Lectures_Grayson_Perry_Playing_to_the_Gallery_2013_Democracy_Has_Bad_Taste/">here.</a>) when I look at these masterly drawings on pottery. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Detail of Werra Slipware Horse (Museum Rotterdam) </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had picked up a few small pieces of these drawings over the last few months and noticed one or two appearing on other mudlarkers sites. I'd realised how different they were from anything else I'd found but thought they just came from one eccentric plate. My favourite</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is what I hope is a little bit of angel. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mudlarking Find: An angel? wing Werra Slipware 1550-1650. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were very keen on their angels</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a couple of indecipherable shards I've found, but now I look at the second one, I wonder if the top right markings are 'I8' the second half of a date. Most plates seem to be dated and it appears to be in the right place. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Werra Slipware with Adam and Eve 1595 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Dr Fischer)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was prompted to look through my box of slipware shards and pulled out a few more pieces of Werra Ware</span>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mudlarking Finds: Werra Slipware 1550-1650</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no doubt that Germany was the European ceramic market leader in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was where stoneware was perfected along with those deep cobalt blue and manganese purple glazes of Westerwald together with these ambitious slipware and sgraffito beauties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And finally a couple of Grayson Perry pots</span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-41394470587075633092013-10-26T15:21:00.001+01:002013-10-31T22:49:06.306+00:00An Early Mudlark<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Up and out before 7am, daylight was just emerging. Strings of headlights were already making their way along the main road. In the distance three tall boxes of light came into view, one of them my bus. Fabulous London where you rarely have to wait more then a couple of minutes for your bus to turn up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is something so comforting about the familiar rocking, humming, hissing and rattling of the London bus as it gently judders you to your destination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bus was full of the stillness and hush of early commuters. Just the occasional cough or turning of a page as we crept into the city. The sunrise tinged the grey clouds orangey pink. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was surprised I wasn't the first down on the Thames, another regular had beat me to it, but for the next couple of hours we were the only ones down there. Each absorbed in our little world of mudlarking pleasure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent the first hour methodically and very, very slowly searching one patch of ground, hoping to find the small and metal. Not much luck, although I did spot my first tiny blue glass bead which I suspect are very difficult to date and a fly button. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mudlarking finds: Glass bead and fly button circled with 'Best Ring Edge'</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spotted one of the oldest pipes I've found so far, the small one at the top with a milled edge is from 1610-1640 pictured next to one from 1700-1770 to show the difference in size, as tobacco decreased in price clay pipes grew larger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second hour was the usual casual beach combing when the pottery catches my eye. More of the same but pleased with this very large piece of Werra slipware which was imported from Germany between 1550- 1650</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and this enormous section of what I suspect is a Roman box flue tile, covered in this earlier <a href="http://mudlarking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/roman-box-flue-tiles-ad-43-410.html">post</a>, found where one of London's disappeared rivers, the Walbrook trickles into the Thames. Londinium was built up on either side of the Walbrook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gathered up three boats which had punted off their plates </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back on the bus, front seat at the top all the way home. Looking forward to a bacon sarnie and mug of tea. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-33661615674457674692013-10-05T09:37:00.001+01:002013-10-05T10:02:46.498+01:00Mudlarking Mosaic - the beginning<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm good at ideas but rubbish at execution. So it will take gargantuan effort for me to ever finish this thing and sadly most of the time it feels more of a burden than a pleasure, I'm hoping that will change as I get into it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since I started mudlarking I've wanted to make something from all those bits of pottery. I came across a mosaic made of foreshore finds which I absolutely loved and knowing I couldn't better the design I settled on pure plagiarism, albeit rather ambitious for someone who hasn't made anything since primary school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tania Covo the wonderful Thames jeweller told me what equipment to buy to get me stared, by enjoyable happen chance, she had worked with the mosaic artist I'm copying </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and assured me she wouldn't mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So printed photos, ordered the equipment and pulled out my first set of pottery pieces, the ubiquitous shell edged pearl ware (1780- 1840) with its blue edging, the relief decorated edges of white stone ware plates</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1720-1780) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">more yellowy cream ware popular from 1760. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and had a go at a section of the design to see if I could 'do it', far from perfect but good enough for me to pursue </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so decided to get serious and bought a book and w</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ent to the wood shop. Realising that I would never get it together to put the wood together into a frame, my very kind husband took it down to a local carpenter and brought back a large 44" x 45" frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> priming and buying tile cement tomorrow - then I suppose I'd better get on with it. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-20732965090378714752013-09-27T10:20:00.000+01:002013-10-31T22:48:48.241+00:00Cloth Seals <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Embodied in these small slivers of lead is so much
of England's past and Thames history. Cloth represented 90% of England's
exports in the 16th Century and was the main export until the industrial revolution.
London controlled 75-80% of this export trade, the Thames its conduit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cloth made up a large proportion of London’s
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identification, quality control and were part of state administration. The
seals were attached to cloth by weavers, dyers or ‘alnagers’, crown officials who
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strip. One disc had a rivet, the other a hole. The discs were folded together over the edge of
the cloth, and hammered together with a die, which imprinted information onto
the lead disc. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s the intricate designs on so many of the cloth
seals which make them appealing. These can include the date and region of
production or inspection, touchingly personal maker’s marks or symbols
indicating alnage. The latter included heads of royalty, the crown, coats of
arms, griffins or lions rampart. Alnage was abandoned in 1724 and sealing was
abolished in 1889. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven’t found many cloth seals so far, but I’m now
on a bit of a mission. I’ve found one I suspect is an alnager’s with a very
small and faint crown at the top and either a letter or number below</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other examples of alnager’s cloth seals, all of
which will be 300+ years old, can be
found below <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1162&g2_serialNumber=4" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1162&g2_serialNumber=4" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4602&g2_serialNumber=2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4602&g2_serialNumber=2" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17th C Alnage cloth Seal (<a href="http://proteus.brown.edu/">http://proteus.brown.edu</a>)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other one I’ve found I recon has a makers mark
on it<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a few other pictures of seals with makers
marks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes you can see the texture of the cloth on the reverse, as in this case</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of the cloth seals found in the UK come from
the Thames foreshore, most commonly from the late 15<sup>th</sup> to early 19<sup>th</sup>
centuries. One theory is that many
dropped off textiles during the finishing processes of shearing, dyeing and
fulling carried out in the many riverside workshops along the Thames. There was
a concentration of dye houses along Thames Street, between Cannon Street and
Southwark Bridge. In one study of seals found along the Thames, they identified
seals from 24 different counties together with imported seals and many from
London dyers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beauty of these Thames finds is that the tiny detailed
imprints are often perfectly preserved due to the Thames anaerobic mud, whereas
the lead found buried in other locations is often so badly corroded that no
surface detail remains. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a few sites which are helpful in
identifying cloth seals, including one put together by Stuart who generously
offers to identify your finds, <a href="http://www.bagseals.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=31&g2_page=9">here</a>. Also LM has found loads of cloth seals on the Thames and her potted history is also worth a read <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.520203344711184.1073741862.441069019291284&type=1&l=64c62bd9c7">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s taken me a couple of years of mudlarking and
the help of mudlarking friends to start spotting lead cloth seals along the
Thames foreshore. The trick is to go slowly and scan between the stones and
other debris, ‘look through them’ as one friend advised. Once you set your
heart on finding a particular type of find, you usually start spotting them and
don’t forget to take them down to the finds officer at the Museum of London.</span></span></div>
Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-79057371817405516862013-09-23T15:50:00.002+01:002013-09-23T15:50:33.752+01:00Another Mudlark and the Thames Festival<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unexpectedly both the youngest and husband were off on separate weekends away. Suddenly I was a free agent. Summer had closed and London was bathed in its familiar grey. Everyone was back in town the roads were crammed with traffic and tubes were chocca. But the city was weekend empty just the occasional group of blokes clad in orange day glo directing juggernauts to the latest corporate building site. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bounced down to the foreshore in my last time shiny new posh boots, which I'd finally got round to buying two years after I starting this mudlarking thing. They make life so much easier down there, wish I'd got some before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Met up with LM and we quietly mudlarked away for the new few hours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well chuffed with my first ever thimble find. I think it's mid 17th - late 18th century as it has a waffle pattern of indentations on the top. The dipples are very regular so it must have been machine made. A good thimble identification site is <a href="http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/pages/thimble.html">here.</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Medieval Fish Weights (time line auctions)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I also rather like this top of a clay stopper, probably because I've found nothing similar before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus in 10 minutes picked up one or two pipe stems for my mosaic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we sat in the pub later we sifted and cooed through our finds, both our partners are rather bewildered by our continued fascination with the same old things we keep finding, so it's nice to find another soul who can find endless pleasure in revisiting their finds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was free to spend the evening mooching around the Thames festival. I'm so disappointed they no longer run banqueting tables down the middle of Southwark bridge, it was so brilliant to feast together with loads of other people, a very unLondon like social event - I blame it all on that man Boris. I wanted to seek out a couple of Thames films, managed to track down <a href="http://thamesfestival.org/events/info/portrait-of-a-river">'Portrait of a River'</a> but whilst interesting it didn't match up to the films I'd seen at the Estuary Exhibition. Then ambled back towards Tower bridge to see </span><a href="http://thamesfestival.org/events/info/1513-a-ships-opera" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1513 A Ship's Opera</a>, <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">billed as 'a <span style="line-height: 22px;">moving, operatic concerto of ships’ steam whistles, bells, horns, hooters, sirens and cannon as the centrepiece of the 2013 Thames Festival' I was intrigued. It wasn't quite as spectacular as I'd imagined it might be, but interesting none the less although mainly just a lot of hooting and tooting. Rather gorgeous though to see Tower Bridge opening and lit up and the Tower of London pooled with light. I took a very unprofessional little film on my phone, mainly to show my family, but thought I'd also bung it here. </span></span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-20510959843984299372013-09-07T13:09:00.002+01:002013-09-21T14:29:09.396+01:00Roman Tegula <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tegula is the twin of Imbrex the two types of tile which made up the Roman roof, a design nicked from the Greeks and still in use in Rome today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I presume most of the red tiles you see on the Thames foreshore are medieval and they certainly are if they have one or two holes in them. But perhaps I'm wrong and many of the tile pieces are Roman for me it's just impossible to differentiate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the tile has a return like the one below it and it is found where Roman London lay, it may be a Roman tegula. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This find was one of Florida Tom's gifts to me. Later that day I found another. Funny how you spot things once their image and identity is imprinted in your brain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tegulae were laid in overlapping fashion. Some were just plain flat tiles, others had raised edges on each side (like the ones I've found) preventing the water from seeping between the join and channeling the water to the bottom of the tile. Later tegulae were a v shape whereby the edges converged slightly each becoming a funnel which slotted into the one below forming a continuous channel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The imbrex were semi circular and were place over the joins between tegulae. If well laid the result was a fully waterproof roof. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The roofing area was usually surrounded by antefixa and these were frequently decorated, now that would be a nice find. </span><br />
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Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537350948151927223.post-1387524021462575542013-09-01T12:04:00.001+01:002013-10-31T22:48:28.539+00:00A few more mudlarking finds & the Estuary Exhibition<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had serious post holiday blues. After a few weeks in the country I was finding it difficult to accommodate ubiquitous concrete, endless coppices of different sized buildings healed into every patch of land, roads scarred with pot holes and tarmac tracks and the absence of big skies. A bit of Thames therapy was what I needed. I went down a couple of times, mainly to collect pottery for mosaic making. Few notable finds. My favourite is this piece of plate rim with apt snatch of poetry 'how I love to calmly muse..such an hour as this'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liked this romanticised river summer scene decorating the bottom of a bowl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sucker for writing on pottery pleased to find T Andrews with its inverted N. The shard is hand sized and slightly curved. Nothing on the net on this one, so haven't a clue about its date. There are a few inclusions in the clay. Later I spotted a tile piece with 'rews' imprinted amongst the pottery of my blog header, which I would have found at least 18 months ago, perhaps from the same vessel? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time did pick up one of the Raeran pottery bases I quite frequently spot, with its distinctive thumbed decoration and colour. The bottom of the jug bulge seems far larger and thinner than usual, so perhaps I'm wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walked through the city to Bank and caught the DLR which winds its way through the juxtaposition of council blocks and corporate opulence to Canary Wharf and meandered through the interesting but rather soulless 80's docklands redevelopment to the Museum of London Docklands. I'd be meaning to visit their Estuary Exhibition for ages. If like me you are rather drawn to landscapes on the margin, with iron hulks of industrial pasts and worn resorts or just fascinated by the Thames</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> you'll love this. The Museum of London's says </span><br />
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Estuary brings together the work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea. The exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of the Museum of London Docklands, a converted Georgian warehouse on West India Quay. </div>
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With its dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts – the Estuary has long been a rich source of inspiration for artists and writers. Through film, photography, painting and printmaking, the contemporary artists featured in this exhibition offer new insight into this often overlooked, yet utterly compelling, environment and the people that live and work there.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I particularly liked John Smith's Turner inspired film of the changing sea set against the sound of the waves breaking on the beach (Horizon (Five Pounds a Belgian) an interview with Smith about this work can be found <a href="http://vimeo.com/42883826">here.</a> Another favourite was the speeded up film of the Thames from the Sea to the City with old men of the Thames animated in their silent tales of their river and the bright fairground of Canvey Island peeking over its grey walled defence. Loved Bow Gamelan Ensemble brilliant performance on Rainham barges, as they are slowly submerged by the Thames tide. All v</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ery inspiring it made me want to 'do art' rather than spend my time in cerebral research about my Thames finds - but sometimes these thoughts are best kept as thoughts as the realisation is much harder and the result often disappointing - we'll see. </span>Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17561866816881655349noreply@blogger.com0