Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlarkさんのイラストまとめ

This week I hade the great honour of speaking at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers Court Luncheon at Trinity House, opposite the Tower of London. The Clockmakers are one of 110 livery companies in the Square Mile of the City of London
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Image: Anthony Gray

Last week the river gave me this beautiful 1901 halfpenny, minted the year Queen Victoria died, the first Australian Parliament opened, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th US President and the Boxer rebellion in China came to an end.
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14th c floor tile, likely to have been made in the village of Penn in Buckinghamshire. Penn supplied churches and important buildings all along the Thames Valley, as far as London, and were the the main purveyors of tiles to the Royal Clerks of Works between 1350 and 1388
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My old Mudlarking pal Pete moved to Tasmania a few years ago, but old habits die hard and he’s is still looking. So far he's found 7 buttons like mine, at a site associated with transported convicts and matched them to convict shirt buttons on the Museum of Sydney website
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This year I became the first female juror for the Court Leet of the King’s Manor in Southwark in its 500+ year history. I am one of only 24 Jurors and they’ve also put me on this year’s Christmas card 😆

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Found and left on the Thames foreshore, a late 19th to early 20th century fresnel lens from an old ship lantern. The design meant that the lens could be relatively thin and light, while still spreading its beam for some distance.

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I woke Winston up to compare the size of his head to the skull of this c.18th/19th century cat. Once we were past that drama, I managed to conclude that they had much smaller heads than cats today, smaller than Winnie's head anyway.

The tide was low enough a few weeks ago to see the remains of an early Anglo-Saxon fish trap, radiocarbon dated to AD 550-670.

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Thank you to Ken McAuley for sharing this amazing Thames find from last week. Its most likely to be a brass dog collar, dated 1692 and owned by Mr John Michell of 'Newington Butts in Surrey', which is now part of central London.

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A wobbly bottom – the base of an 18th c wine bottle, found and left on the foreshore. Large enough to be from a mallet bottle, the transitionary shape between the squat onion bottles of the late 17th and early 18th c and the cylindrical bottles we recognise today.

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