Mudlarking 76 - Grant's Quay Wharf
Dec. 30th, 2025 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaA lunchtime lark and the foreshore was full of tourists.
One man was showing his small daughter how you should scrape the top level off, in an area where no surface disturbance is allowed. That annoyed me.
Anyway, apart from the tourists, there was one other mudlark there that lunchtime, wearing wellies, mostly in the mud.
I didn't find a lot. A chunk of a John Maddock plate, possibly from between 1906 and 1927. I don’t usually find sherds with words on in this area. A bit of a plastic flower. A bit of glass that said 72 on it. A piece of Staffordshire style slipware, some bits of Bellarmine. I was happy to find a button.
It was near to low tide so I walked underneath Grant’s Quay Wharf. It's a bit dark under there so more difficult to mudlark but it feels like you're somewhere secret when you're amongst the wooden struts.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
One man was showing his small daughter how you should scrape the top level off, in an area where no surface disturbance is allowed. That annoyed me.
Anyway, apart from the tourists, there was one other mudlark there that lunchtime, wearing wellies, mostly in the mud.
I didn't find a lot. A chunk of a John Maddock plate, possibly from between 1906 and 1927. I don’t usually find sherds with words on in this area. A bit of a plastic flower. A bit of glass that said 72 on it. A piece of Staffordshire style slipware, some bits of Bellarmine. I was happy to find a button.
It was near to low tide so I walked underneath Grant’s Quay Wharf. It's a bit dark under there so more difficult to mudlark but it feels like you're somewhere secret when you're amongst the wooden struts.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)