Mudlarking 88 - Poison and a bobbin

I got up early so that I could go mudlarking before work.

The forecast had looked like it would be dry, but it was drizzly and wet.

The seagulls were squawking as the sun rose.

I bumped into two other mudlarks - one who I had seen there before, so I said "hello" as we passed each other in our wellies.

I found:

What I think is another lace bobbin, but I'm not quite sure.

Part of an old Fanta bottle, perhaps from the 1960s.

A green cabochon.

A sherd that says “Lond”. London!

A piece of a poison bottle. It would have said “Not to be taken”.

Another piece of Express Dairies Aster pattern pottery.

A colourful chunk of glass. Maybe from a bowl?



(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

Mudlarking 89 - A witch's finger and a Mickey Mouse purse

I had been tempted to book the morning off work when I noticed a very low tide, but was only properly swayed when a fellow mudlark asked if I was going to the foreshore.

BBC predicted the tide as 0.00, so we were keen to visit the bottle graveyard. PLA’s prediction was 0.22, but in the end it was actually observed as 0.36, so we were not able to get there, but we did find some interesting items anyway.



In the first picture:

A finger! Don’t worry, it’s a plastic one. Possibly a witch’s finger.

A Codd bottle marble

A button

A pink bead and a blue bead

A brown piece of glass that says 6oz on it. Possibly from a large Bovril jar that was 16oz. It’s a different shade of brown to the other Bovril jar I found though.

A piece of uranium glass that glows brightly under UV.

A Minton sherd with a globe mark. Possibly 1863 - 1872.
https://www.thepotteries.org/potters/minton.htm

A JC Oriental sherd. Joseph Clementson, circa 1850s. It would have originally looked like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186907264126

A tiny opalite

Part of a pork pie inkwell.




And in the second picture:

Another piece of an old Fanta bottle

A Bailey and co sherd:

The Fulham Pottery dates back to around 1672, when it was founded by John Dwight.

Bailey and Co were in operation there from about 1864 - 1889, run by Charles Bailey.

In 1889, they were fined for emitting smoke.

Today, you can still see the bottle kiln from the Fulham Pottery on the site and it is a Grade II listed building.

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A rather rusted blue Mickey Mouse purse. Similar style one here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/389226667721

An SW Dean sherd. They were in operation in Burslem from 1904 - 1910.

A pink bicycle bell.



And in the third picture:

A pair of sunglasses

A green bottle

An R Whites bottle, found by a fellow mudlark.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

Mudlarking 90

There were a few other mudlarks on the foreshore at low tide, and I was late, so felt like I'd missed all the good things.

But! I did solve the mystery of my previous find, which people had guessed was grapeshot or milling balls or sheep poo! It's kind of concretey, and the concrete must have broken away, leaving just the balls.

There were crab legs on the shore which made me sad.

I found a few tiny pieces of Westerwald.



(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)