Mudlarking 28 - an earring and a hand

[squirmelia]

Although I'd been to Greenwich before, I hadn't been there at low tide, so thought I'd try it.

I got to Greenwich and found a massive cruise ship, with people just getting off it and getting into tour groups.

The foreshore was also full of tourists but the tide was out enough to walk along and the next beaches were quieter and I felt calmer.

I picked up an earring, but not the sunglasses nor the high heeled shoe.

I saw a dead eel, which made me feel sad.

I walked past a pub and heard people laughing loudly.

I heard thunder but wasn't sure if it was actually an aeroplane from City Airport, but then the skies opened and the rain poured down and I got drenched as I headed back up to the town centre.

I found a sticker that said “Logan Maliepaard” on it and it seems a 5 year old with that name won an elephant art competition in South Africa a few years ago. Did this child visit London? Or another person with the same name.

I found another concrete cylinder to go with my other one.. another core sample from a bridge or once part of a signpost?

I found a bunch of crayons on the beach and sometimes I picked them up and then put them down again when I found more. There was a lot of light grey board (?) with a black covering that snapped in my hand. I picked some up to start with, but there was so much that I put it all down again.

I picked up a purple hand! I wonder whose hand it was.

I picked up a snapped part of keyring or something, which said “The Book of Mormon” on one side and “I believe” on the other side.

I picked up a piece of pipe that has “lwich” on it. Dulwich, perhaps?

There was a nice wavy piece of wood and a sherd that said “decor protect” on it. There was a flint that looked like an egg yolk when I picked it up but doesn't now it's dry.

There were some small red stones and sherds of different colours and patterns.

Comments

[spiralsheep]

Dead slowworms always make me sad, even though they turn a lovely metallic blue colour as they dry. At least the dead eel will be a meal for a hungry birb.

Dulwich seems a good guess. The red flint is sometimes called jasper. I'm still envious of your urbanite cylinder finds. :-)

[squirmelia]

I'm thinking now Woolwich would be more likely! On the other side it looks like it says "WCD", but the last letter is a bit worn and difficult to tell, so I'm now concluding that it is made by William Cope of Woolwich! Likely to be 1817-1851. I have just a tiny fragment, but perhaps it once was as long and glorious as this one: https://x.com/TideLineArt/status/1562749190869905408

[spiralsheep]

It's so interesting being able to reconstruct the shapes and origins of pipes and sherds from fragments. Woolwich sounds more likely, yes, and is that a B near the heel too?

Glad you follow Nicola (TideLineArt). :-)

[squirmelia]

That one has a "B" on one side and an "I" or "J" on the other.

Not part of the same pipe as I was just propping the other up on it.

Might try to figure that one out next!

I am enjoying figuring things out even if I do make mistakes a lot still (eyeballs and bullets, ha ha.)

[squirmelia]

I didn't know the red stone was a flint and called jasper! I had just thought they were nice red stones. :) Thank you!

This concrete cylinder is less smooth than the previous one - the stones are sticking out a bit more, so maybe it's worn away more.