It's here! My book 'Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames' is published today by Thames & Hudson. #thamesandhudson #mudlark #mudlarking #history

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Only part of one word to go on, but I think I cracked it: a fragment of plate commemorating the International Exhibition of 1862, a world’s fair held in Kensington. See comments for closest example. Found #mudlarking on the river #Thames. #history #archaeology

From a belt like this?

Found #mudlarking on the river #Thames yesterday: a late medieval lead-alloy buckle still with some 600 year old leather still inside. 15th Century (perhaps 1400-1450). Very happy with this find. #archaeology #history

Found #mudlarking on the river #Thames: ‘The Wounded Stripe’, an award given to British soldiers wounded in the First World War. It was worn at the forearm (see comments). This is its back plate. #history #archaeology

Found #mudlarking on the river #Thames. Big rare chunk of Italian-made charger featuring the arms, with their characteristic six balls, of the all-powerful Medici family. Made c. 1575-1625. #Archaeology #history

Found last week #mudlarking on the river Thames: a clay tobacco pipe featuring symbols associated with #freemasonry c. 1800. Made in #Hull, it perhaps made its way to London via the coastal trade. #mudlark #archaeology #history

#Mudlarking a button featuring three anchors from the uniform of a ship’s master, 1805-1812. This design can be seen in a portrait of HMS Bounty (of mutiny fame) ship’s master John Fryer (see comments). #mudlark #history #archaeology

A rare Thames #mudlarking find of mine from a couple of weeks ago: part of a Roman scabbard slide made of bone. This helped keep a sword in place when worn with a shoulder belt (see comments for image). #archaeology #romanbritain

This river Thames #mudlarking find I made last week was too big to take home. #mudlark.

Finding a Victorian-Edwardian clay tobacco pipe bowl mimicking briar wood #mudlarking on the river #thames last week. #mudlark

Found #mudlarking on the river Thames: a four hundred year old lead seal featuring a lion and a crown. Once attached to a roll of cloth during the reign of James I (1603-25) to indicate taxes had been paid and it met the required standards. #mudlark #archaeology #history

Preserved for over 400 years by the Thames mud and found #mudlarking last week: a leather insole dating to c. 1580-1615. Now undergoing a conservation process. #mudlark #archaeology #earlymodern #fashionhistory

Find of the week :) #mudlarking on the river Thames: a Marathon chocolate bar wrapper 1967-1990. In 1990 Marathon was renamed Snickers. #mudlark #marathon #snickers #contemporaryarchaeology

Found this morning #mudlarking on the river Thames foreshore, a knife handle dating (I think) circa 1750-1850. #mudlark #archaeology #history