Objects survive in near-perfect condition, partly because oxygen cannot permeate the Thames’s mud. Many mudlarks uncover ...

Mr Russell said it was "high up" on his "list of dream finds", and his Twitter ... Popularised by the Victorians, mudlarking involves going down to the banks of the Thames at low tide and ...

In 18th- and 19th-Century London, mudlarks were impoverished citizens (often children) who scraped a meagre living by scavenging for sellable items in the stinking mud of the Thames at low tide.

People wishing to go mudlarking, a centuries-old ... archaeological site to the London Museum. With finds on the foreshore to the west of the Thames Barrier dating back to 4500BC, the PLA says ...

However, “most finds are waiting on the surface and ... Nicola also recommends books such as Nick Stevens and Jason Sandy’s Thames Mudlarking: Searching For London’s Lost Treasures and ...

From Rotherhithe to Chelsea, with forays to Margate and Lyme Regis, she tells fascinating stories of London’s history and its inhabitants, inspired by her mudlarking finds. It left me longing to ...