Mudlarking 38 - Crowds
Sep. 1st, 2025 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaThe opposite of the previous time, the foreshore was too busy for me.
I started off at Cousin Lane Stairs but there were already 4 people at the edge of the river when I got down there, and it felt like there wasn't space for me there too, so I stood there for a few seconds, then left.
I next tried Trig Lane Stairs. There were a few people towards Queenhithe but that looked busy and I'm still not entirely sure where the boundary is of the Ancient Scheduled Monument so I don't want to risk it. There were a few other people on the foreshore too, but I had a few minutes where I mostly just picked up pieces of glass, with the thought that if I collect enough glass, surely one piece would glow under UV? I then concluded maybe I should study pictures of uranium glass first. Time to join another niche Facebook group.
I also picked up a piece of pipe with initials.
A tour group appeared but fortunately I'd already decided to leave even though there was still plenty of time before low tide.
In future I will go to quieter spots.
When I got home, I shone the UV torch at all the pieces, but none glowed, but I also pointed the torch at the piece from before and that did!
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
I started off at Cousin Lane Stairs but there were already 4 people at the edge of the river when I got down there, and it felt like there wasn't space for me there too, so I stood there for a few seconds, then left.
I next tried Trig Lane Stairs. There were a few people towards Queenhithe but that looked busy and I'm still not entirely sure where the boundary is of the Ancient Scheduled Monument so I don't want to risk it. There were a few other people on the foreshore too, but I had a few minutes where I mostly just picked up pieces of glass, with the thought that if I collect enough glass, surely one piece would glow under UV? I then concluded maybe I should study pictures of uranium glass first. Time to join another niche Facebook group.
I also picked up a piece of pipe with initials.
A tour group appeared but fortunately I'd already decided to leave even though there was still plenty of time before low tide.
In future I will go to quieter spots.
When I got home, I shone the UV torch at all the pieces, but none glowed, but I also pointed the torch at the piece from before and that did!
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)