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squirmeliaI had been tempted to book the morning off work when I noticed a very low tide, but was only properly swayed when a fellow mudlark asked if I was going to the foreshore.
BBC predicted the tide as 0.00, so we were keen to visit the bottle graveyard. PLA’s prediction was 0.22, but in the end it was actually observed as 0.36, so we were not able to get there, but we did find some interesting items anyway.
In the first picture:
A finger! Don’t worry, it’s a plastic one. Possibly a witch’s finger.
A Codd bottle marble
A button
A pink bead and a blue bead
A brown piece of glass that says 6oz on it. Possibly from a large Bovril jar that was 16oz. It’s a different shade of brown to the other Bovril jar I found though.
A piece of uranium glass that glows brightly under UV.
A Minton sherd with a globe mark. Possibly 1863 - 1872.
https://www.thepotteries.org/potters/minton.htm
A JC Oriental sherd. Joseph Clementson, circa 1850s. It would have originally looked like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186907264126
A tiny opalite
Part of a pork pie inkwell.
And in the second picture:
Another piece of an old Fanta bottle
A Bailey and co sherd:
The Fulham Pottery dates back to around 1672, when it was founded by John Dwight.
Bailey and Co were in operation there from about 1864 - 1889, run by Charles Bailey.
In 1889, they were fined for emitting smoke.
Today, you can still see the bottle kiln from the Fulham Pottery on the site and it is a Grade II listed building.
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A rather rusted blue Mickey Mouse purse. Similar style one here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/389226667721
An SW Dean sherd. They were in operation in Burslem from 1904 - 1910.
A pink bicycle bell.
And in the third picture:
A pair of sunglasses
A green bottle
An R Whites bottle, found by a fellow mudlark.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
BBC predicted the tide as 0.00, so we were keen to visit the bottle graveyard. PLA’s prediction was 0.22, but in the end it was actually observed as 0.36, so we were not able to get there, but we did find some interesting items anyway.
In the first picture:
A finger! Don’t worry, it’s a plastic one. Possibly a witch’s finger.
A Codd bottle marble
A button
A pink bead and a blue bead
A brown piece of glass that says 6oz on it. Possibly from a large Bovril jar that was 16oz. It’s a different shade of brown to the other Bovril jar I found though.
A piece of uranium glass that glows brightly under UV.
A Minton sherd with a globe mark. Possibly 1863 - 1872.
https://www.thepotteries.org/potters/minton.htm
A JC Oriental sherd. Joseph Clementson, circa 1850s. It would have originally looked like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186907264126
A tiny opalite
Part of a pork pie inkwell.
And in the second picture:
Another piece of an old Fanta bottle
A Bailey and co sherd:
The Fulham Pottery dates back to around 1672, when it was founded by John Dwight.
Bailey and Co were in operation there from about 1864 - 1889, run by Charles Bailey.
In 1889, they were fined for emitting smoke.
Today, you can still see the bottle kiln from the Fulham Pottery on the site and it is a Grade II listed building.
--
A rather rusted blue Mickey Mouse purse. Similar style one here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/389226667721
An SW Dean sherd. They were in operation in Burslem from 1904 - 1910.
A pink bicycle bell.
And in the third picture:
A pair of sunglasses
A green bottle
An R Whites bottle, found by a fellow mudlark.
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)