Roman Fingerprints Found Mudlarking The Historic River Thames

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  • @salishseaquest7952
    @salishseaquest7952 4 роки тому +20

    Kate, you had every reason to be shaking with excitement with that Roman piece! That was an amazing find -- once in a lifetime. Your sentiment to wish everyone could touch it and feel a part of the Roman past was made real as you held it and spoke so keenly about the fingerprints of the Roman potter. Thank you for that moment in time when we were right there with you.

  • @brightpurpleviking
    @brightpurpleviking 4 роки тому +5

    How AMAZING to see those fingerprints on that ancient Roman pottery! WOW!!! BRILLIANT!

  • @catherinethompson2525
    @catherinethompson2525 4 роки тому +15

    Love the new Wellies Fleur!!!

  • @elizabethchevalier7740
    @elizabethchevalier7740 4 роки тому

    Confession; I got a little teary looking at those Roman fingerprints. What a find!

  • @susanpye9821
    @susanpye9821 4 роки тому +1

    Another great video there is so much history.

  • @NorthernMudlarks
    @NorthernMudlarks 4 роки тому

    Wow, love the Roman pot - and with fingerprints! It's a real link into the past. Lovely finds and lovely video xx

    • @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers
      @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers  4 роки тому

      It is crazy to place your fingers in the place where their fingers were! Like you say a real connection to the past :) x

  • @craftymainemom2895
    @craftymainemom2895 4 роки тому +17

    Finding fingerprints feels like we are connecting with the people of the past. Amazing!

    • @PerryArt420
      @PerryArt420 4 роки тому

      you are in Maine, ???????????? i'm in Canaan

  • @amandapittar9398
    @amandapittar9398 4 роки тому +2

    Laughing at the seagull pretending to walk on water...
    You two make me so happy. I’m a soap maker. Had a hard afternoon with a very difficult new soap, it did all sorts of weird things and after the third semi failed batch, I stomped home. Made a nice black tea. Nutella on Vogel’s. Sat down to decompress. Brilliant, “Kit & Kaboodles” . Ten minutes later......”ooh, Roman fingerprints.... slip ware.....pins.... seagullls.....” back to normal. Thank you. May all your Bartmans come to light. Xxx🌸🐨🌸

  • @denisepeterson7401
    @denisepeterson7401 4 роки тому +2

    Silly Sunny cat!!!!

  • @Nemodog
    @Nemodog 4 роки тому +12

    Your bone arrow could be an awl for weaving baskets. It is a nice pokey tool for making holes in ....whatever. It might not be a tool for death. It might be a tool for craft. A tool some ancient mama used to take care of her family.

  • @grettagirl2884
    @grettagirl2884 3 роки тому

    That piece of "thumbprint" flint, looked a bit like a modern day 'worry stone'!! 😀

  • @IamBlueCat666
    @IamBlueCat666 4 роки тому +9

    Cute how Sunny has to put his seal of approval 😂 of the finds.

  • @ALayne08
    @ALayne08 4 роки тому +1

    Fleur
    I love your gnome wellies. They’re so bright and cheerful, they make me smile. "Life is short so Live Life like You Own it." That’s my motto that I try to live by.
    Kate, you have an eye for the pipes and small things that I wouldn’t see so keep up the search. I really like the great finds.

  • @karenclary8592
    @karenclary8592 4 роки тому +1

    Oh so happy for you Kate! Wonderful find!!

  • @lovelyskull3483
    @lovelyskull3483 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you, lovely video.☮️🇨🇦

  • @kathisease9924
    @kathisease9924 4 роки тому +1

    What a wonderful cash of finds you made! I look forward to Thursday's video. Thanks as always for sharing.

  • @susanhennes870
    @susanhennes870 4 роки тому +1

    Beautiful fines

  • @sandraburfoot1941
    @sandraburfoot1941 4 роки тому +16

    As i m imobile and can t even get in our garden i have found your videos have kept me sane -thank you so much -love your family and Sunny and your makes xxx

  • @patwithers1448
    @patwithers1448 2 роки тому

    Love from the old lady in Texas God bless you always and forever

  • @bobcampbell2486
    @bobcampbell2486 Рік тому

    By the way, you have a very cool cat . He knows he is loved and he knows you have been busy with things that you brought home when you while you were gone like forever in his world, so he keeps going back and forth to get your attention and to interfere with you "playing those smells than him". Like I said he is really a cool cute kitty. Love his interaction while you show us your finds . Washing does not remove years of smells that animals can smell and you can't. Susann 76 (Now as I know I'm 76 not 73) 😁

  • @Mudpies
    @Mudpies 4 роки тому +1

    What a great mudlark, wonderful Roman find, super pleased for you 🎉

  • @anonymouse4850
    @anonymouse4850 4 роки тому +2

    There were lots of bone implements,forweaving,knives,sewing,very versatile and lots of bone to choose from

  • @georgiaware3248
    @georgiaware3248 4 роки тому +2

    Omg it doesn't get any better than this,😀lol, those finger prints 🌝

  • @angelicangel817
    @angelicangel817 4 роки тому +3

    I love those boots!!

  • @christopherroesch2768
    @christopherroesch2768 4 роки тому +3

    I look forward to these videos every weekend

  • @debcattell7059
    @debcattell7059 4 роки тому +1

    Great film 👍 thank you for sharing 😊 loved it ❤ the finds are always awesome and the history from the treasures you find is so cool 😊

  • @kellyhawes8901
    @kellyhawes8901 4 роки тому +1

    Really awesome prehistoric finds. Like others I really think flint H is used as a early “thimble” to push the awl through thick leather. It would be interesting to see what a museum has to say. And the Roman beaker is a find of a lifetime!!

    • @lightwavz
      @lightwavz Рік тому

      I was coming in, 2 years later, to say the same. Definitely a thimble to me.

  • @katecarpenter7366
    @katecarpenter7366 4 роки тому +1

    Another wonderful video!

  • @davidcox2264
    @davidcox2264 4 роки тому +2

    Wonderful finds. But the best part is the new wellies.😁

  • @celinaalarcon9849
    @celinaalarcon9849 4 роки тому +1

    I love the roman piece with the fingerprints! Very nice finds ladies! :)

  • @ddouglas3860
    @ddouglas3860 4 роки тому

    I love when you lark the Thames, flint is so interesting and educational, what has been knapped or not etc.😁 👍👍👌👌xx

  • @MillieOsborne
    @MillieOsborne 4 роки тому

    Blue and white...tin glaze...pins... pipes...imagine the stories they could tell! Roman history, in the palm of a hand...still bearing the maker’s most personal of marks. Don’t you just get the shivers when an exceptional find is picked? If you’re a watcher, an enjoyer of thoughtful vignettes, crafting videos, these lovely-cozy visits, don’t forget to “like” each video...and, if you’re not already, join so many of us from around the world...become a subscriber, and support the adventures of Fleur and Kate! ❤️🇨🇦❤️

  • @KittyGrey13
    @KittyGrey13 4 роки тому +3

    What an awesome find! I’m sure the Roman that left those prints would be equally excited and amazed to think that someone so far in the future would be putting their own fingers into those prints.
    Still working on my husband here to try to convince him to take me for a little lark. I think he’s afraid of looking like a fool or getting into trouble for wandering into farmers fields. I managed a little wander around a younger dump site but nothing too amazing because of its age. I would just love to find a pipe bowl, an intact bottle or stoneware pot, dolls parts, lead toys, marbles and my absolute joy would be a frozen Charlotte or anything with Queen Victoria on! Until I managed to convince him to have a field wander though it’s unlikely. I found some broken pieces in my garden but nothing as fab as the things you guys find. Looking forward to your next film. Take care.

  • @erinrabideau3691
    @erinrabideau3691 4 роки тому +1

    Those Roman fingerprints are absolutely incredible. Absolutely amazing! Also, so so many beautiful bits and pieces! What a great lark! 😍😍😍

  • @esztervizi7202
    @esztervizi7202 4 роки тому +1

    Your flint collection looks spot on, and the sharpened bone would be a great arrow ..

  • @JenniferCagle75
    @JenniferCagle75 4 роки тому +5

    Kate humming while picking up stuff is soo cute and as much as she has said about you (Fleur) rubbing objects. I laugh when she does it repeatedly. Love the feather edge and the pictorial pottery shards. Great film. I hope lockdown doesn't last too long. Stay safe.

  • @dianaforbes6679
    @dianaforbes6679 4 роки тому +1

    If you like finding little metal items maybe a magnet 🧲 would be beneficial. Some places have too much metal and magnet is more of a pain. Just a thought. Congrats on the Roman find!

  • @alessia0064
    @alessia0064 4 роки тому +3

    Lovely Sunny 😸 he just loves being in on the action 😍👍 Take care and stay safe 🙂👍👍

  • @mikeandbrendasmith
    @mikeandbrendasmith 4 роки тому +3

    Hi avery enjoyable video, never stop being enthusiastic Kate, Take care from us xx

  • @carlwilson1772
    @carlwilson1772 4 роки тому +3

    Much as I am very familiar with the esteemed and wondrous history of our great country, my mind was completely and utterly blown by the Roman fingerprints in that pot. Just the idea that we in this nation can stand, in the 21st century, with traffic rumbling past and aeroplanes soaring above, and film ourselves on a mobile phone picking up a piece of pottery made 2000 years ago. That is just lying in plain sight.

  • @christhompson4270
    @christhompson4270 4 роки тому +2

    Good luck guys in the lockdown, stay safe and well, love and blessings to you and your family. Love the finds, beautiful. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨✨

  • @umich79
    @umich79 4 роки тому +2

    Awesome new Welles, Fleur!

  • @janicestevens8469
    @janicestevens8469 4 роки тому +2

    I would be shaking too if I found something that awesome! Some of those pieces were definitely tools - it was a very exciting day! Thank you for the wonderful video!

  • @juliet5114
    @juliet5114 4 роки тому +5

    Wow 😳😲!!! Your bone "arrow/spear head"(my gut and eyes are so saying that's what it is) and the FABULOUS finger prints on your Roman pottery just floored me. Two amazing finds, sister-friends 🙌🏻. I think Professor Hemery would be VERY interested in seeing pictures of both of them 👍🏼.
    🤞🏻🥂Hears to hoping the UK's lockdown eases so for all. 😊🤗🤭😘😽

  • @smurph4959
    @smurph4959 4 роки тому +4

    I find flint in a field near my home ... Fleur, same head scratching happens for me but sometimes my gut just tells me to believe it's worked lol like Kate and the fingerprints I get the same feeling when holding flint ... it's the best. Thanks for sharing 🌼🌸🌼

  • @raewynrush6754
    @raewynrush6754 4 роки тому +2

    Loved your finds ❤

  • @Katseye102
    @Katseye102 4 роки тому +2

    So funny that you said you put the pipe somewhere safe......when I can’t find something that I placed somewhere safe.....I tell myself it’s safe from me! Hahahahaha. Usually don’t find it for a while! Hahahahaha! Way back in the day when they were treating animal skins and they didn’t have our modern tools they used bone to scrap the skins, so ya, I think you really found something cool!! It does look like an arrowhead! Always interesting when finding flakes of stone, wondering what part of the process of forming a weapon or tool they were a part of.

  • @bonnerdebbie
    @bonnerdebbie 4 роки тому +2

    Congrats on that piece of Roman with fingerprints, what an awesome find. The others were great too!

  • @mctron22rd
    @mctron22rd 4 роки тому +2

    There are no words in the english language that could suffice, when it comes to how amazing that Roman piece along with your mothers arrow spear and flints she finds. You both have a really good eye and both of you are so modest and humbling. You both are one of my favorite channels! My husband looks at my history of the things I watch and he trips out on most of it because it's so full of mudlarking, Crochet, pyramids, archeology , and Time Team! I feel I must have been English in another lifetime because I am obsessed! Fleur would be in heaven here in New Mexico
    Where I live there are burial mounds and they are full of arrow heads for some reason that has escaped me. There is so much to do if here. I wish we had tips, like the ones you do in England. I can't seem to find any yet but I will not give up though!

    • @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers
      @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers  4 роки тому +1

      Wow, that sounds amazing! We really need a mudlarking world tour! Thank you so much :)

    • @mctron22rd
      @mctron22rd 4 роки тому

      @@MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers Perfect Idea!! I would love to see that! To be apart of it would be even better. I live in a valley where their are tons of dinosaur bones. People can go up there and help dig for them and keep them unless it is something the university here is interested in. There is also foot prints in ancient human and dinosaur prints that are fossilized in the mud and some people that study at The University of New Mexico, believe that the human was being chased by a dinosaur! That is full of controversy because i am sure you know, but some scholars dont believe that humans and dinosaurs where not around at the same time. I beg to differ, because of the animal depictions in Gobeckli teppi, of a human riding a dinosaur!! I feel we all have the same interest in common and I think its awesome!

  • @lindacarlton2467
    @lindacarlton2467 4 роки тому

    The very small bits of pottery would be nice made into a mosaic tray

  • @deniserose2269
    @deniserose2269 4 роки тому +2

    Very nice arrow

  • @annegoodwin4620
    @annegoodwin4620 4 роки тому

    Flint with thumb-shaped indentation might have been part of a striker for fire starting, says my husband Jason. :-)

  • @brikhouse22
    @brikhouse22 4 роки тому +8

    The weird pin probably had a glass head, the strange shape was meant to help keep it on.

  • @susangosling6122
    @susangosling6122 4 роки тому +2

    What fantastic finds, I forgot about everything for a while there. Please keep the videos coming ladies, keep safe,much love Sue Gosling Adelaide South Australia

  • @rtsyfrtsy924
    @rtsyfrtsy924 4 роки тому +4

    Sometimes the broken pipe bowls you find remind me of coracles. I keep seeing one with a bee at the helm, using spider threads as reins to guide the goldfish that's pulling them across the water.

  • @montydewitt547
    @montydewitt547 4 роки тому +1

    I love the old pottery shards. I’ve so much. Don’t know what to do with it. Hard to not Vick up something so beautiful

  • @mellomelo119
    @mellomelo119 2 роки тому

    Wonderful lark !

  • @sallysendall2708
    @sallysendall2708 4 роки тому +1

    Great vid and lovely finds as always take care x

  • @treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340
    @treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340 2 роки тому

    good finds enjoyed watching keep
    It up

  • @evekankam6744
    @evekankam6744 2 роки тому

    Lovely finds

  • @theresabraddock9310
    @theresabraddock9310 3 роки тому

    very cool flint finds!

  • @janethuffman5280
    @janethuffman5280 4 роки тому

    I have been searching and collecting native american arrowheads for over 30 years. You definitely found some worked pieces. The dished out piece i would say is a thumb scraper. Most pieces had multi uses. The bone piece could have been used as a spear for catching fish. Tied on to a thin tree limb or as an awl.

  • @XPALYDO
    @XPALYDO 4 роки тому +1

    Love your Thames trip! I’m sad for the shut down, but I guess it is for the best. It sure is raging here...

  • @elainekayes8087
    @elainekayes8087 4 роки тому +2

    Looking forward to another video ladies xx

  • @julzmgrforll7278
    @julzmgrforll7278 4 роки тому +1

    Fresh bone when it's broke open to get the marrow out will break l like your Arrowhead. That is not to say that yours is not an arrowhead. I just love y'all! I hope you keep making videos for a good while. Oh almost forgot... Love love love the flint with a thumb hold!

  • @mariamceuen4700
    @mariamceuen4700 4 роки тому +4

    Hello. The pointy bone is likely a spear point. If it is, it would be VERY old. Sunny cat likes the feel of pottery. Hug him for me. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

  • @oneagentfrog
    @oneagentfrog 4 роки тому

    your large suspiciously looks like an arrow find is petrified bone I am no expert but I agree with you its a tool/weapon of some sort. My husband and I have live in Oregon I found a cultivator this summer its is as big as my hand! Thank you for sharing.

  • @patriciaglove8201
    @patriciaglove8201 3 роки тому

    That small bit that your thumb fits in looks like what we call a worry stone. We hold them in our hand like you did , and rub our thumb on the stone causing it to be dipped and smouth where the thumb is rubbing. This is suppose to relieve stress and anxiety.i have one . actually all of it should be polished looking but getting battered by other stones all these years could give it some sharp edges. Also the round disc with the hole in the middle looks to me as an early button. A piece of leather would go through the hole and a knot tied on the other side so it wouldn't pull through the hole. These are used not only holding clothes together but also for decoration.

  • @janelovesy2399
    @janelovesy2399 4 роки тому +1

    Very Interesting !

  • @jennywalborn7769
    @jennywalborn7769 4 роки тому +2

    Fleur, I love that you're hooked on native American arrowheads /points(flints)....I have been for many years and have a collection. I love finding them and rescuing them from where they are not appreciated! You will learn more and more what they are when you see them! They are amazing history!♡ Great finds from the Thames again, loved it!

  • @lindajanke6194
    @lindajanke6194 2 роки тому

    I have collected arrowheads and stone tools all my life. Your stones appear to have been deliberately shaped. You have a good eye.

  • @abdelhak6470
    @abdelhak6470 4 роки тому +2

    Likely those fingerprints were made by stubby fingertips !! It seems that this roman potter had suffered from a chronic pulmonary disease. You should tell the roman potters to stop smoking and not to work in a dusty area. 🤣🤣
    Thanks for sharing.

  • @tonywild1963
    @tonywild1963 4 роки тому +1

    Was a lovely day along the Thames and some good finds. Amazing to find fingerprints on that Roman vessel, and it looked like a letter K subscribed in the base. Good to see sunny having fun in your garden. Thank you and keep safe

  • @karenclary8592
    @karenclary8592 4 роки тому +2

    Can't wait!!

  • @becky8571
    @becky8571 4 роки тому +21

    Could the flint with the thumb dimple be a thimble to push a bone needle through hides?

  • @lynnmcinnes9810
    @lynnmcinnes9810 4 роки тому +2

    I was watching a video of vintage stuff for sale, and saw this pin cushion doll for sale. Its half a porcelin doll with a flared skirt over a pin cushion. I love your video's and like that you upcycle with history.

  • @malcy34
    @malcy34 4 роки тому +5

    Flints......you know who you need to contact..if possible..... Phil Harding of Time Team fame....his speciality is flint.....!!!!!!

  • @babybyrd2121
    @babybyrd2121 4 роки тому +3

    I wish I could give you two thumbs up! The Roman pottery finds , wow, the fingerprint one, just incredible! The flints are sooo interesting. I don’t know at all, but the little round one is definitely something! Possibly used in sewing or intricate work of some kind? Which brings up the bone implement. Could it possibly be something like an awl? Like for pushing cord material or making holes in leather or such? If any of those are really true, then they are really old, aren’t they? What fun! A great day at the Thames. Sunny is the best treasure of all!

    • @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers
      @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers  4 роки тому

      Awl has been suggested but it has also been suggested that they are not worked at all so I am just as confused as ever haha :)

  • @lindahardy5216
    @lindahardy5216 4 роки тому +3

    🌴🌴⏰⏰⏰ Hello All from rainy☔ Daytona Beach. You will brighten my day🌞, Fleur & Kate! [+ Oscar & Sunny]! My alarm clock is set.

  • @tammywhalen3297
    @tammywhalen3297 4 роки тому +2

    Wow great stuff! When you were speaking of the window into the past it reminded me that when i see a video or movie and even your video i know that if i could climb into the screen and go across the water that im recorded in that video...does that make sence to you what im saying all of us are actually i feel anyway in every movie or video i think its a cool thought.

  • @sandraadams4940
    @sandraadams4940 4 роки тому +8

    Native Americans used bone for lots of things including needles.

  • @paulsirens7259
    @paulsirens7259 4 роки тому +2

    Always so interesting, well done :)

  • @Julianne955
    @Julianne955 4 роки тому +2

    Fleur, yes...that one with the bifurcated base and VERY sharpened point...it was made to have a purpose. I have a few Native American finds, very few, and then I see others finds over here and I'm like what? Wait? That's a point? I don't get all the things they find, I think we have to go by our guts. Kate...oh my word! Roman finger prints! So very awesome! Congrats on the great finds Ladies! I'm not even done watching the video yet, lol.

    • @globalcolor4080
      @globalcolor4080 4 роки тому +2

      Yes I was going to say that is an arrowhead or spearhead. I've seen a few Native American ones here, as a friend collects and has maybe 5. The ones I've seen are too similar not to be the same thing as the one in the video (other than having a piece of the bottom broken off on one side). That one looks ancient.

    • @Julianne955
      @Julianne955 4 роки тому +2

      @@globalcolor4080 agree!

    • @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers
      @MudlarkingWithKitCaboodlers  4 роки тому +1

      Thank you so much! I am still very much learning it is quite hard as you say haha :)

  • @rhondamitchell5892
    @rhondamitchell5892 4 роки тому

    I like the pins you gathers they are so full of dated information.

  • @sandramays795
    @sandramays795 4 роки тому +2

    Well I don’t know about the rest of them but 17:26 is clearly a Neolithic thumb drive 😂

  • @catherinethompson2525
    @catherinethompson2525 4 роки тому +1

    Looks like a worry stone with the wear on it
    Interesting find

  • @maarinabudd
    @maarinabudd 4 роки тому

    The unusual pin maybe a pin that has lost it's little pinhead at the top.
    Have found these type of pins before and when unfortunately, the pinhead has become detached from the pin when cleaning!
    I know the thar stretch of the foreshore that you were on very well as I mudlark there myself occasionally 🤗

  • @pamcolechadwell1302
    @pamcolechadwell1302 4 роки тому +1

    Could be an 32:20 Art palette the small hole in the stone. 18:00 the stone in the flint group. Those fingerprints are an 21:31 Amazing find,

  • @leebrennan2609
    @leebrennan2609 4 роки тому +1

    Wish I could give you ladies more likes

  • @joshuastacey5292
    @joshuastacey5292 4 роки тому +2

    Flint E is definitely worked, I’m thinking a side scraper possibly or blade, likely Neolithic, beautiful find

  • @ljannesister762
    @ljannesister762 2 роки тому

    Ah the 'safe' place ! Yez,I have one of those too 😁

  • @northernerinnc3179
    @northernerinnc3179 4 роки тому +8

    Wonder if the bone sharpened "arrowhead" could have been used to spear fish?

  • @bobcampbell2486
    @bobcampbell2486 2 роки тому

    I have a few of these disk that has a hole in the middle that I bought at Target. New stuff and they are used to put your scarf through it to keep it around your neck or head. Maybe that's what those stone disk were for. Just thinking .Passed down from son to son and the rubbing can cause the thumb indenture. Susann 73

  • @donnabowen1636
    @donnabowen1636 3 роки тому

    I think the flint with the thumb endent was used to strike on another stone to start a fire.

  • @pamelaarana1942
    @pamelaarana1942 4 роки тому +4

    How has that fingerprint lasted through the ages?! Incredible

  • @Hairnicks
    @Hairnicks 4 роки тому +1

    Lovely film as always, I wonder if the f king with the dip originally had a point and was for making holes in leather of skin for sewing pieces together.

  • @carollewis2232
    @carollewis2232 4 роки тому +1

    It’s a Roman worry bead!🤣🤣🤣

  • @carolinejamison4303
    @carolinejamison4303 4 роки тому +1

    Yes loved the video I thought I was going mad 🤪when I was watching it one minute you were wearing your new Wellington boots then you had your old ones on 😃 I loved seeing all your finds but my favourite was Flint H would make a beautiful necklace stay safe 💞

  • @erinrabideau3691
    @erinrabideau3691 4 роки тому +4

    Could that bone tool be antler? Maybe that’s why it survived? It could be an awl?

  • @bobcampbell2486
    @bobcampbell2486 2 роки тому

    The glass type stone with the thumb would fit looks like a handmade worry stone My grandfather had one that he would rub back and forth with his thumb. Grandmother said when he used that stone it meant that he was holding his tongue from saying something that would not be welcome. Susann 73