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 dow...

Embodied in these small slivers of lead is so much of England's past and Thames history. Cloth represented 90% of England's exports...

Unexpectedly both the youngest and husband were off on separate weekends away. Suddenly I was a free agent. Summer had closed and London was...

Back on part time wages and back on the bus. Low mists of cow parsley edge the parks. Above, horse chestnuts are dressed with white candles....

This was the find I was so pleased with a couple of months ago, I suspected it would lead me on an interesting journey & so it did. ...

Lead tokens were used in Britain from the late 13th century to the mid 19th century. Until the 1500s most tokens were made of pewter and ten...

When I got home I laid out the bunch of nails,   I had this time bothered to pick up from the Thames foreshore, I was touched by their quirk...

Mudlarking, for me, has essentially been beach combing, wandering along the banks of the Thames, looking at the ground for things that catch...