River Thames Trip - 2 Days...

[CRUSADER]

I've had a standard permit for the Thames Foreshore for some years but I have only had about 3 previous 1 hour sessions. Therefore I wanted to give it a proper go & try the metal detector as well. I had a 2 day effort with just over 5 hours hunting time. The first day I tried the detector & after only getting modern coins, I decided to go back to what works best for me - scrapping. Not with the nearest stone this time but a proper trowel
Nothing outstanding was found but it was a fun experience & I need much more local knowledge to get any better

Lots of Elizabethian handmade dress Pins. (some come out like gold but then quickly change colour in the air)
Typing blocks
Clay Pipes
My first 1/2 of a Medieval Floor Tile
Selection of Medieval & other Pot Shards
Leather Shoe pieces including an early looking kids shoe & a dockers hobnail heel with nails
My Fav find - perfect condition mid-19th C (maybe a bit earlier) Earthenware Glazed Pot - no idea of function. I spotted the rim peaking out of an under cut bank at over a foot deep.

 

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[CRUSADER]

It's called elitism, anywere else anybody would be able to do it.

If you met the Mudlarks your comment would make no sense. (The Thames is not anywhere else it's controlled by the PLA & they could ban the whole lot)

 

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[Bill D. (VA)]

Looks like you had a couple of productive hunts in the limited time you had. That's a nice collection of pipe bowls you accumulated. And that reminds me - have you ever found and dug out trash pits at any of your detecting sites? I bet you could really get into some awesome stuff if you did that.

 

[Silver Searcher]

If you met the Mudlarks your comment would make no sense.

I don't have to Mate, like you said the Londoners, how much of the Thames foreshore runs through public land, if you were detecting the river in your neck of the woods nobody would give a damn.

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like you had a couple of productive hunts in the limited time you had. That's a nice collection of pipe bowls you accumulated. And that reminds me - have you ever found and dug out trash pits at any of your detecting sites? I bet you could really get into some awesome stuff if you did that.

Never had any trash pits, but I look out for Roman/Celtic pits, maybe one day we will dig a couple with the Archies.

 

[CRUSADER]

I don't have to Mate, like you said the Londoners, how much of the Thames foreshore runs through public land, if you were detecting the river in your neck of the woods nobody would give a damn.

SS

If I was on Public Land they almost certainly would. It's private land I stand the better chance.

 

[Silver Searcher]

If I was on Public Land they almost certainly would. It's private land I stand the better chance.

Chalk this one up for the beer tent Mate, next time we get to go on a dig.

 

[CRUSADER]

Chalk this one up for the beer tent Mate, next time we get to go on a dig.

As long as you don't break out the bingo like the rest of them

 

[Silver Searcher]

As long as you don't break out the bingo like the rest of them

Noooo they never did.

 

[goen 4 gold]

awesome finds,seen a show a few weeks ago about the mudlarks, looks like great hunting at low tide!

 

[CRUSADER]

awesome finds,seen a show a few weeks ago about the mudlarks, looks like great hunting at low tide!

Low tide is the only time you can hunt, which is very limiting compared to my normal hunt patterns.

 

[leprechaun]

Super nice stuff. Ilove those pipes.

 

[CASPER-2]

Awesome finds

 

[hamiddetecting]

Good job

 

[cntrydncr1]

I love all the pipes! looks like it was fun. congrats

 

[old digger]

You have found some really nice pipes. Congratulations! I like that old three tined fork.

 

[CRUSADER]

You have found some really nice pipes. Congratulations! I like that old three tined fork.

So do I, not sure on age but I guess mid-19th C??

 

[Papa Bear]

It's a very strange concept to me thinking about a river being off limits, but obviously it's very different there and they have their reasons. I've told Shaun once or twice to get swinging there.

Well it depends om the state. Some states say below the high water mark is public, some not. Some say the wet river bed is public, others not. i think the high water mark should apply. Sounds like too much bureaucracy is still alive and well in my homeland.

 

[CRUSADER]

Well it depends om the state. Some states say below the high water mark is public, some not. Some say the wet river bed is public, others not. i think the high water mark should apply. Sounds like too much bureaucracy is still alive and well in my homeland.

There is no high watermark on most of the Thames, its all under water until it goes out. You have to go down steps about 20-30 foot in most places to the riverbed. It's controlled by the Port of London Authority, I see no other way a River as important attraction with a 'major commercial navigable route' could be safely maintained. (the public aren't going to do it)

If you were in the Thames Estuary above high watermark, there are probably plenty of places you could go without 'bureaucracy' as you call it. I call it a commonsense approach to a massive health & safety risk, which as you know many people now sue against (sue culture is our biggest emergerging issue, not sure where that came from). Something that has increased all our insurances, which is the real nonsense 'bureaucracy' in my eyes. More importantly is protects our Historial Hertiage, which is never a bad thing.