Mudlarking 80 - a circus and a bobbin
Jan. 15th, 2026 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmeliaI miscalculated and only gave myself just over an hour on the foreshore before I had to be elsewhere but perhaps that was just as well as it was cold.
This time I wore gloves underneath my plastic gloves and thicker socks under my wellies and that helped me to keep warmer.
There were plenty of tourists, both on the foreshore and staring down at me, which is why I prefer to avoid this bit at weekends, unless it's early.
I found my second glowstick, and also some sherds including:
Four pieces of Express Dairies Aster pattern
Brown piece of Dudson
Some delicious strawberries
Dunn Bennett & co
J & G Meakin
A mysterious piece that says “Drew” and “Circus”. Wondering if it could be from St Andrew St, Holborn Circus, but difficult to tell.
Also, what I think is a bobbin, possibly bone and possibly for lace.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
This time I wore gloves underneath my plastic gloves and thicker socks under my wellies and that helped me to keep warmer.
There were plenty of tourists, both on the foreshore and staring down at me, which is why I prefer to avoid this bit at weekends, unless it's early.
I found my second glowstick, and also some sherds including:
Four pieces of Express Dairies Aster pattern
Brown piece of Dudson
Some delicious strawberries
Dunn Bennett & co
J & G Meakin
A mysterious piece that says “Drew” and “Circus”. Wondering if it could be from St Andrew St, Holborn Circus, but difficult to tell.
Also, what I think is a bobbin, possibly bone and possibly for lace.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)