Liz Anderson
@lizanderson.bsky.social
Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
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Life ring return crates are now at Tower & Westminster Pier giving crews a central place to return life rings recovered from the Thames so they can be safely reused.
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Life ring return crates are now at Tower & Westminster Pier giving crews a central place to return life rings recovered from the Thames so they can be safely reused.
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
If you find a life ring, please return it to a crate 💙
A joint initiative with Transport for London.
#PortOfLondon #SaferThames
Spot the find. An easy one. Mudlarking is about ‘getting your eye in’, i.e. looking for perfect shapes & colours of artefacts that don’t appear naturally among the stones, gravel, mud, sand and rubble of the Thames Foreshore. Scanning as I walk, a pop of green grabs my attention. A child’s marble.
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Spot the find. An easy one. Mudlarking is about ‘getting your eye in’, i.e. looking for perfect shapes & colours of artefacts that don’t appear naturally among the stones, gravel, mud, sand and rubble of the Thames Foreshore. Scanning as I walk, a pop of green grabs my attention. A child’s marble.
If you can’t live without merchandise featuring a mouse riding a lobster then @themerl.bsky.social is the place for you.
It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year.
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
merl-shop.co.uk
(and, yes: we ship internationally!)
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you can’t live without merchandise featuring a mouse riding a lobster then @themerl.bsky.social is the place for you.
Bullets found on one small patch of the Thames Foreshore yesterday. All still live, so I left them where they were as safest. The Thames still holds these memories of this dark period in London’s history. Help with ID appreciated though, the one on the right is a 303 round but not sure of the others
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Bullets found on one small patch of the Thames Foreshore yesterday. All still live, so I left them where they were as safest. The Thames still holds these memories of this dark period in London’s history. Help with ID appreciated though, the one on the right is a 303 round but not sure of the others
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The River Thames has sparked creativity for centuries - from the artists and poets of the past, to today’s filmmakers and content creators.
If the Thames inspires you, we’d love to see your response on film in the new Video category of the Thames Lens competition, sponsored by Illuminated River.
If the Thames inspires you, we’d love to see your response on film in the new Video category of the Thames Lens competition, sponsored by Illuminated River.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The River Thames has sparked creativity for centuries - from the artists and poets of the past, to today’s filmmakers and content creators.
If the Thames inspires you, we’d love to see your response on film in the new Video category of the Thames Lens competition, sponsored by Illuminated River.
If the Thames inspires you, we’d love to see your response on film in the new Video category of the Thames Lens competition, sponsored by Illuminated River.
Some blue on white pottery from the Thames Foreshore this morning, sherds dating from late 17thC to 19th. Love birds from a Transferware Willow Pattern plate and two different tin glaze sherds, blue swirls on white, the reverse showing this was from a charger or plate. Tin glaze didn’t last well.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some blue on white pottery from the Thames Foreshore this morning, sherds dating from late 17thC to 19th. Love birds from a Transferware Willow Pattern plate and two different tin glaze sherds, blue swirls on white, the reverse showing this was from a charger or plate. Tin glaze didn’t last well.
Egyptian Goose arrives on the foreshore this afternoon to check
our mudlarking permits.
our mudlarking permits.
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Egyptian Goose arrives on the foreshore this afternoon to check
our mudlarking permits.
our mudlarking permits.
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Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
Sunday afternoon reading. Increasingly burying myself in history, archaeology, larking. Not avoiding current world horrors, but a temporary escape from them (and life could be equally brutal in centuries past). In the face of doom, damage, destruction and dictators, books are our temporary refuge.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sunday afternoon reading. Increasingly burying myself in history, archaeology, larking. Not avoiding current world horrors, but a temporary escape from them (and life could be equally brutal in centuries past). In the face of doom, damage, destruction and dictators, books are our temporary refuge.
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The Menhir de la Lèque in Lussan (Gard) is 5.6m tall. It Is also known as Pierre Plantée, one of several menhirs which in tradition had grown from seeds. A chunk out of one edge is from C19 attempts to break it up. #StandingStoneSunday.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Menhir de la Lèque in Lussan (Gard) is 5.6m tall. It Is also known as Pierre Plantée, one of several menhirs which in tradition had grown from seeds. A chunk out of one edge is from C19 attempts to break it up. #StandingStoneSunday.
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They are still going (possibly bought out in the way of these things) but I've had their bars from the Polish shop vg
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
They are still going (possibly bought out in the way of these things) but I've had their bars from the Polish shop vg
Adrian Chiles interviewing a Norfolk woman metal detectorist on Saturday Live R4, though not giving her time to answer questions properly. She’s found a gold Iceni Quarter Stater (coin) but apparently this doesn’t count as treasure. Good she’s referenced the need to report/record finds on the PAS.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Adrian Chiles interviewing a Norfolk woman metal detectorist on Saturday Live R4, though not giving her time to answer questions properly. She’s found a gold Iceni Quarter Stater (coin) but apparently this doesn’t count as treasure. Good she’s referenced the need to report/record finds on the PAS.
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*Archaeological find of national significance broken up and dispersed overseas*
There, fixed that headline for you
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
There, fixed that headline for you
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
Roman coin find in Dorset field sells for over £16,000
A hoard of 97 Roman coins found in Dorset by metal detectorist Trenton Oliver sold for £16,625 at Noonans Mayfair auction, exceeding estimates.
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
*Archaeological find of national significance broken up and dispersed overseas*
There, fixed that headline for you
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
There, fixed that headline for you
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
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An ancient multiplication table in clay by a student named Suen-apil-Urim from the 1800s BCE
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
An ancient multiplication table in clay by a student named Suen-apil-Urim from the 1800s BCE
BBC News attempting to speak to Dominic Cummings about the findings of the Covid enquiry. Cummings foul-mouthed, aggressive, and looking like he’d fallen out of the nearest bin. What a shambles of a man.
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
BBC News attempting to speak to Dominic Cummings about the findings of the Covid enquiry. Cummings foul-mouthed, aggressive, and looking like he’d fallen out of the nearest bin. What a shambles of a man.
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As its ancestors did be for millenia, a Grey Heron stands at one of Elizabeth I's favourite spots along the Thames
" The last remaining features of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty that once served Richmond Palace." #HeronTime
" The last remaining features of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty that once served Richmond Palace." #HeronTime
A long lost Tudor Palace, very few traces of it remain. On the foreshore a few timbers of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty, also a gatehouse off Richmond Green. Thought to be Elizabeth I’s favourite palace & where she died on March 24 1603. We have only Wyngaerde’s sketches to show us what it looked like
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
As its ancestors did be for millenia, a Grey Heron stands at one of Elizabeth I's favourite spots along the Thames
" The last remaining features of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty that once served Richmond Palace." #HeronTime
" The last remaining features of the old Tudor/Stuart jetty that once served Richmond Palace." #HeronTime
The annual draw-off in the Thames gives a wonderful chance to see this unremarkable lump of stone, actually the last remaining corbel of the old Tudor Palace at Richmond, before it’s covered by the river’s tender embrace for another year. Mason’s marks can be seen on the sides, too heavy to move 1/
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The annual draw-off in the Thames gives a wonderful chance to see this unremarkable lump of stone, actually the last remaining corbel of the old Tudor Palace at Richmond, before it’s covered by the river’s tender embrace for another year. Mason’s marks can be seen on the sides, too heavy to move 1/
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My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
Going… going… gone overseas?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasin…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
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Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight.
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
Going… going… gone overseas?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasin…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight.
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
The system is broken and overdue significant reform
One of my favourite photos from the Thames Foreshore this year, view from Wapping Old Stairs across the river to Rotherhithe. Taken on a gloomy weather day just like today, an eerie Thames mist took us by surprise as it appeared from nowhere and rolled silently upstream, shrouding the landscape.
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One of my favourite photos from the Thames Foreshore this year, view from Wapping Old Stairs across the river to Rotherhithe. Taken on a gloomy weather day just like today, an eerie Thames mist took us by surprise as it appeared from nowhere and rolled silently upstream, shrouding the landscape.
Some tiny treasures from the Thames last week. The oldest is a clay tobacco pipe bowl, stem is missing, but dating from 1640-1680. Partial Georgian-era buckle, made from pewter, possibly from a shoe. Eurocoin token for a slot machine and a brass/paste brooch, shaped like a bow, could be 1950s.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Some tiny treasures from the Thames last week. The oldest is a clay tobacco pipe bowl, stem is missing, but dating from 1640-1680. Partial Georgian-era buckle, made from pewter, possibly from a shoe. Eurocoin token for a slot machine and a brass/paste brooch, shaped like a bow, could be 1950s.
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
Very high tide at Twickenham Riverside this afternoon. Despite multiple warnings informing that this road is liable to flooding, people still ignore them and leave their cars parked here. They’ll return to find them full of water…
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very high tide at Twickenham Riverside this afternoon. Despite multiple warnings informing that this road is liable to flooding, people still ignore them and leave their cars parked here. They’ll return to find them full of water…
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Thanks so much for your kind words Liz.
As Liz says, please join us. All are welcome. 😊
As Liz says, please join us. All are welcome. 😊
Calling all litter detectives. The marvellous team at @thames21.bsky.social have two events on 28th Nov, at Limekiln Dock 10.30-12.30, & at Broomhouse Dock (Fulham) 12.30- 2.30pm. If you’d like to help them collect & categorise river plastic, link to register here www.thames21.org.uk/event/river-...
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thanks so much for your kind words Liz.
As Liz says, please join us. All are welcome. 😊
As Liz says, please join us. All are welcome. 😊
Calling all litter detectives. The marvellous team at @thames21.bsky.social have two events on 28th Nov, at Limekiln Dock 10.30-12.30, & at Broomhouse Dock (Fulham) 12.30- 2.30pm. If you’d like to help them collect & categorise river plastic, link to register here www.thames21.org.uk/event/river-...
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Calling all litter detectives. The marvellous team at @thames21.bsky.social have two events on 28th Nov, at Limekiln Dock 10.30-12.30, & at Broomhouse Dock (Fulham) 12.30- 2.30pm. If you’d like to help them collect & categorise river plastic, link to register here www.thames21.org.uk/event/river-...