Mudlarking thames

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

A mudlark who found a rare Roman lamp while walking on the Thames foreshore in his lunch break revealed that he almost threw it away because he thought it was a fake.

Why are semi-precious gemstones lying on the bottom of the River Thames in London?

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The word ‘mudlark’ was coined in the 18th century as a malicious description for the scavengers who scoured the banks of the River Thames for scraps.

Vieilles pipes en grès trouvées dans la Tamise | Antique clay smoking pipes, Thames River finds.

Lara Maiklem has spent 20 years ‘mudlarking’ on the Thames foreshore – finding peace, solitude and fragments from 2,000 years of human history

Mudlarking is an old, very London specific form of amateur archaeology, where people can inspect the shores of the Thames in central London to find artefacts and relics from its long and extensive past. As there are rules, regulations and safety concerns about how this can be done, it is best to join one of the organised tours run by Thames Explorer Trust, who have the required permits and expertise.A city as old as London has been built layer upon layer of human debris; discarded and lost…

A mudlark is the name given to a person who scavenges in the foreshore of a river for objects that could be sold. This term applies specifically to those operating along the Thames River in London during the 18th and 19th centuries.