Coin Of Louis Xiii
Bronze Age Deer Antler Mattock
MesolithicThames Pick, 350 Bc
Prehistoric Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Bone Skate From Early 16th Century Thames Frost Fairs
Anglo-Saxon Zoomorphic Drinking Horn Terminal

Alan's Find's

Coin Of Louis Xiii
Bronze Age Deer Antler Mattock
MesolithicThames Pick, 350 Bc
Prehistoric Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Bone Skate From Early 16th Century Thames Frost Fairs
Anglo-Saxon Zoomorphic Drinking Horn Terminal
Andy Joannesen and Ian Smith | Photo: Hannah Smiles

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Meet the other mudlarks

Andy Joannesen and Ian Smith | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Andy Johannesen & Ian Smith

The chairman and treasurer of The Society of Thames Mudlarks.

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Anna Borzello | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Anna Borzello

I have always been drawn to the Thames. I have photos of myself dancing on the foreshore at sixteen and the memory of an exhilarating police boat ride…

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Ed Bucknall & Malcolm Russell | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Ed J Bucknall & Malcolm Russell

I started mudlarking in 2011 when I first moved to London as a great way to revive my childhood passion for archaeology and art.

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Fiona Haughey | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Fiona Haughey

I am an inter-tidal archaeologist and have worked on the Thames since 1993. One stretch that I have concentrated on is Bankside, a popular part of the…

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Florence Evans & Cecilia Evans Chatfield with Rainbow Kennedy | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Florence Evans & Cecilia Evans Chatfield with Rainbow Kennedy

I always remember the river. Mummy brought me here since I was a baby in her tummy. I used to like playing in the sand, now I write in it with a stick.…

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Fran Sibthorpe | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Fran Sibthorpe

Since my childhood years I have had a fascination for beach-combing, especially on my annual summer holidays during which I spent hours wandering the…

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Jason Sandy | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Jason Sandy

Since I was a child, I have always been interested in history. I was born in North Carolina, USA and studied in Raleigh, the capital city named after…

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Judy & Phill Hazell | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Judy & Phill Hazell

We first started mudlarking by chance; we were visiting some museums and then had a wander around and came upon Trig Lane stairs leading to the foreshore.…

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Lara Maiklem

I have been a mudlark for over 15 years. For me the foreshore is a place of peace and solitude where I can re-charge from the demands of life and the…

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Lucie Commans | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Lucie Commans

I am a French expat and adopted Londoner with a passion for inter-tidal and maritime archaeology. In 2010, while doing a short course on daily life in…

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Mark Paros | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Mark Paros

I have lived in Edgware in north London all my life, in the house where I was born. As a child, I began searching for fossils (which I had a passion for),…

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Monika Buttling-Smith | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Monika Buttling-Smith

I love Mother Nature and Old Father Thames. I find joy in mud-squelching, river splashing, crow-wrangling, ladder-climbing, stone-skimming, elver-rescuing,…

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Nick Stevens | Photo: Graham Anderson

Nick Stevens

I have been a keen hunter of all things old for as long as I can remember. My earliest memory is of finding a small fossilised shell near my childhood…

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Nicola White

Nicola White

Our 2019 mudlark in residence.

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Simon Bourne & Terry Seddon | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Simon Bourne & Terry Seddon

I first discovered mudlarking some years back when I visited Rainham Marshes in Essex, which is part of the Thames Estuary.

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Ted Sandling | Photo: Hannah Smiles

Ted Sandling

When I stoop to pick up a fragment that has lain hidden for centuries in the Thames, I feel my fingertips grazing those of the person who last held it.…

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