Mudlarking - 37 - Ginger beer and uranium glass

[squirmelia]

I had the foreshore to myself at Blackfriars, but the tide was coming in.

I found a sherd that said “Hooper” on it. Possibly from “Hooper Struve” that made stoneware ginger beer bottles, late Victorian.

I found a sherd that has a speckled appearance, which looks like there are tinier sherds on the sherd.

But the most exciting thing I found that day - a piece of uranium glass! It glows when a UV light is shone on it!





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

Comments

[iguana]

Congrats! I wasn't expecting you to find uranium glass! I'd be too worried about the radiation to handle it much myself 😅

[squirmelia]

Thanks! I wasn't even sure it was glass, thought it might be plastic, so was surprised to find it was uranium glass. I think it's considered to be quite harmless and barely radioactive. I hope!

[khalinche]

Wow, what an exciting find!