Finds Everywhere! Cannon Ball, 300 y/o Clay Pipes, Victorian Dolls! (Mudlarking Paradise!)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Join us on an exiting field walking trip to The Field of Dreams as we search a ploughed field for lost treasures in laying the mud! From strange Victorian dolls and doll parts to canon balls! We uncover collecting clay pipes runs in the blood and find our personal connection to 'Fairy Pipes' (old clay smoking pipes) as Alex reads our ancestors own words by the fireside.
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Wonderful finds. The little lady you called a chest piece could also have been a a pilgrims thing or a gift for a baby which was named Elizabeth as the figurine looks like holy Elizabeth of Thüringen. She is shown as a lady with a basket. The storie is, she wanted to donate bread rolls to the poor but her family didn't allow it. So she took the clothes from her maid, went out of the castle and got catched by a family member. Been asked what's in the basket, she answered: Flowers and when the cloth was taken away there have been roses instead of bread rolls. So take a closer look to the basket to identify her😉
What a beautiful story!
It certainly looks like you are correct Rita! Beautiful!
I love the little lady you found, Alex. When one of you said it looked like a chess piece, I wondered if you could use your random broken finds to create a unique chess set. Men’s heads for kings, women’s heads for queens, horse heads for knights, small bottle stoppers turned upside down for bishops, etc. Perhaps attach the heads onto various lengths of glass tubes or round bottles filled with small pieces of colored glass or rocks for weight, and attach the tubes onto tile bases. A set could be a premium item for your Etsy Shop.
I totally was thinking she was the queen of a chess set!
How creative! And the legs could be pawns.
You are a GENIUS!!! A chess set of larked finds would be amazing!!
Every set would be 100% unique!!! I love this idea
I think the stopple boppers would make good pawns.
Happy New Year! Next time you visit the field of dreams, Alex should say "I'd really love to find a gold coin or two"! And then, see what you discover 10 seconds later! 😉
I was thinking the same thing!
Blue Beads."In the east end too, it was customary for women and female children to wear blue glass beads around their neck as a 'preventative for bronchitis'". From "LONDON The Biography" by Peter Achroyd . pg211
This is from a chapter in the book talking about the plague years .
It would be interesting to know if the practice was common in other places than the Eastend of London .
Thanks for that info! We just found something about it in an old book, so it was a common practice at least from the mid 19th century. Also common in places like Turkey xx
FABULOUS...I think the little bisque lady with the basket is the patron saint of mudlarks 😊
Happy New Year to two adventurous, curious, intelligent, creative, warm-hearted, and generous mudlarkers! Here’s wishing your next spin around the sun is even more treasure filled than this last one. Stay safe out there! And thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing with us.
Dear Michele M.
👍👌👏 Very well said, very well indeed. I wanted to comment similar but fortunately you already did all the writing work. ;-) Nevertheless I like to add: beautiful, enthusiastic and with a big positive aura.
Happy new year.
Best regards, luck and health.
LOVE the wee chess piece lady (if that's what she is?!). Reminds me of the Lewis Chess Pieces! The grape shot is cool too - makes you wonder what was going on it that field..?!
I said to Sarah when you kept pulling out doll legs, but no arms that 'something was 'afoot' in this field that there were just legs and no arms... bad joke, but 'armless' really...' then you found one, but I'm still using this joke here! Haha!
Fantastic video and great editing, as always! Great to see our wee spot in your end of year round up too! Must get another collaboration arranged this year when suits you two!
Happy New Year from us all at DSoS HQ - Willie, Sarah and Jack. :) xxx
Yes indeed, by all means, please do meet up again….🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
The figurine and the clay marbles were great. The tiny doll parts were from doll house size dolls from 1840s to the late 1800s.
The brain is an amazing thing and your eyes are actually part of your brain, so when you vocalize something you hear yourself and a sort of request is sent to your eyes to focus.
Interesting!
A very happy,HEALTHY,new year to you both ,your family and all my fellow watchers.Sue.x
I maintain that this is still the best intro to any UA-cam video I've seen. Happy New Year girls!
Thank you! xx
This is so much fun to see. My mother now 81 used to do this when she was young on their own land, a tulip farm in Limmen (Holland) an old village dating back to Roman era. She found many Roman pot shards and very old pieces of pipes, very fine ones from the 1600 and other bits and pieces even a mammoth tooth. One day she came up to her room and found that her mother chucked everything away. She was heartbroken. This was in the 1950..Her mother said, I cleaned up your room, it was such a mess…😵💫 So nice to see mother and daughter mud larking together. ❣️
Wonderful leggy day! The caped figure was lovely. And, I love the family history repeating.
That little lady is so sweet. Made even more wonderful for how Alex discovered it. 💕♥️💕
If the glaze is really shiny it is modern. Old glazes are matt, normally lead which is green, or they are salt glaze kind of brown and tin glaze white / blue , I think , being a potter I should know, but have not done it in 25 years, If Roman normally burnished, this was done with a smooth stone to seal the clay when wet or leather hard, string or cord was used as decoration, pushed into wet clay, the posh stuff terra cotta with relief designs on the pot, clever Romans, their glass was super, us English were a bit more crude in design, but they worked as good wholesome cook wear-Love the clay pipes, as a smoker would love one,
They lose their legs walking through that rough field
Dang, that’s a sweet nodule!
And I love that there’s just a moment of Alex presenting a little hilarious sliver of doll butt without comment ☺️
So much fun! I love how Alex is more excited for the button than the coin. Love it!!
If I had too many pipe stems, I would cut them into smaller pieces, paint them, and call them "beads". Happy New Year Gail, and Alex!!
A little red riding hood, my mother collected them. There were at least 50! She boxed them all up one day, lol she was tired of dusting them. I love watching you two, the way you 2 interact reminds me of my mom. You two are awesome. Thank you for your videos and the love you show is amazing.
The stone looks like a clear opal. Great find!
Lovely wee woman wrapped in white wool scarfs with a wicker basket...
Is it just me remembering back to the days when a lid and a pipe meant something more? 🤣
I feel like finding you ladies was a blessing for me. I absolutely love the both of you and all your adventures. Not only have you gotten me back to crafting, I have also ventured out of my comfort zone and have been trying new things. When Alex said she was having trouble looking for so many items. What I would do is focus on the mud and everything that isn't mud sticks out at me. I found doing that helps me a lot. Just a thought. Thank you for all the adventures.
I still get so happy for you Alex when you find your treasures! Your fun happiness in finding your doll little legs is contagious!!Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm ladies!!! It comes so refreshing these days to hear you both so happy when you find things! Greetings from California….🌹🌹happy new year! stay safe! 😉
Wonderful way to start the New Year. So glad I found this channel last year, love the histories of some of those finds. The Old advertisements are a joy, as well. Love the superlatives in those ads. (One simply can't do without, the benefits of those fabulous products.) By the way I recently celebrated the 44th anniversary of my 21st birthday. (That means I can toss my fake ID into the trash receptical.) Have so enjoyed your finds, & the enthusiasm you both have. (I made a resolution that I won't be so verbose in my comments this year. But then I thought, why deprive readers of my wit & effervescent personality? That wouldn't be fair to the several people who may actually read them.)
Seriously Happy New Year to you both. May God bless you this year. May this be the second best Year ever for all.(the first being the Year I was born, of course.👌😉) Again Happy New Year from myself & my beloved grandchildren.
PS you should slice that white stone with the clear insides (trying to be accurate & scientific) & make pendants. Canada has a beautiful stone called Ocean Stone (I believe) it is so beautiful, they slice those stones & some make jewelry from it. It is stunning to be honest. (Learned of it from a Canadian gold miner I follow on YT. Dan Hurd (working from memory so I'm probably wrong). Many blessings to you & your entire family for this New Year. Thank you for your wonderful videos.
I used to love to go hunting in the fields behind my house growing up, never found anything like what you do just arrowheads, but I loved it. That lady figurine is amazing.
That barbie is definitely Alex with that cap on! That glue bottle was cool and I love listening to Alex read! 😍 All the best for 2022!
I too found a little girl with basket in a ploughed field exactly the same, I always thought it had snapped off something as mine too has a rough base. It has sat on my mantle piece for over 40 years. I'm looking forward to see what you do with her.
I absolutely love it whenever Alex wipes mud off of an object on her pants 😄! It’s such a satisfying connection through the magic of the internet to the delightfully mucky, wholesomely dirty physicality of the places you gals are exploring!
(Also, I live in NYC, and as much as I adore my city, most of our dirt is frankly extremely gross 🤔😳)
Thank you for bringing such joy to me every Sunday in 2021… living vicariously through y’all❤️
Mr.Adshead really missed the boat not calling it Adsheasive!😂
Hola me encanta ver sus videos,que manera de encontrar tesoros ,pero lo que más me gusta es ver su transformación y hacen verdaderas obras de arte .Un gran abrazo desde Chile
Guauuu todos juntos yo los veo a todos😍😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Oh I love the fairy story .The little lady you found.
Hint: little bisque porcelain figure pieces can be easily and quickly reproduced with molds and efficiently fired in a home kiln. Can be personalized with low fired colored clay stains, easier to work with than the low fired glazes....will make excellent charms and jewelry candidates....👍 Thanks for the amazing adventurous videos!!!
The pipe stems would make lovely bead (but bead) stung curtains. Like they did with beads in the 70s in doorways.
Yes, the little lady was my favourite also. She reminds me of a Wade woman figurine.
I live in NB Canada…my great grandmothers name was Sarah Taylor..before she married my great grandfather Harvey Caldwell. I definitely have some Scottish roots…maybe we have a similar bloodline 🤷🏼♀️😊
Yaaaay catching up on my favorite mudlarks! ♥️♥️
Try spraying your mud boots with rain-x auto window rain repellant....might possibly keep the mud from sticking so thick...👍
I can’t look at a bottle stopper without thinking in my head, “It’s a stopple bopper “ !
I am absolutely astounded by the things you found just walking through a field!
What a great day you had. I’m watching in June2024.
Love your enthusiasm & excitement when you're treasure hunting 🤗🤭❣
Legs! Everywhere! Lol. Happy New Year!
Love watching you two find your treasures. I'm in the USA, and there was an old tradition of making memory jars. They used plaster on stone jugs or pots to press beads, stones, jewelry, buttons into. I wonder if you gals would be interested in making one with your extra pottery pieces?
Thank you for sharing your treasures with those of us across the pond. Lol
I have never missed a show. You two are great. Sometimes it makes me wish I lived in England again. When I watch your show I mush I missed doing there. May God Bless you in the the coming year and keep you safe.
That jug handle made me think "omg bridge" ...it'd look really cute used as a bridge in one of your little dioramas you make with the pipebowl fairy houses. Means you have an excuse to find and bring home jug handles now (::
That is so cool that you found out that a family member centuries ago was into that stuff. Into the pipes. That is just amazing. I actually have ancestors myself from the United kingdom. And it would be so great to find ones that live there today. In my blood I have english, scottish, irish, and welsh. That's on my mom's side of the family.
Gail and Alex, I absolutely love your channel. I even got my mother who is 88 and a 67 year old sister to watch your channel. They don’t miss an episode. Your finds and craft making are beautiful. I lived in England for 6 years in the late 70’s and thru 86. I wish I had hear about mudlarking. Anyway what is your link to your online shop? Keep searching and reach for the stars
I’m glad to see that Barbie is appropriately dressed for the weather! ❤️ Hope you had a lovely holiday season :) you do brighten the day for me:) I love watching! Thank you 😊
Marvelous video! I found the fairy pipes quite interesting. My 7th great grandfather, Thomas Spell, was a tobacco inspector in colonial North Carolina in the mid 1700s. Perhaps he had inspected some of the tobacco that was used in those pipes! 😄
You charming ladies are always a joy to watch. Thanks for providing another year of fun and adventure, and best of luck in the New Year. Seasons greetings from beautiful Rhode Island!
What a wonderful trip to the Field of Dreams! Thank you for starting out the new year with another fascinating adventure. I loved the stories about the fairy pipes and the trip down memory lane of 2021. I hope 2022 finds you happy, healthy and lots of fruitful adventures and projects. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
Great video..loved the story..just wanted to snuggle with Alex on that chair..toooooo adorable..loved the arm find.. Alex is tuned in🥰
I know this is a somewhat older video. I just wanted to say seeing you in your jammies by a fireplace Christmas tree in the background is absolutely wonderful!!! I hope you would consider doing a night before Christmas reading each year.
So interesting. Do you know how these treasures ended up in this farmer’s field? Amazing!
Cannonball…..so cool. Fantastic
I first found your channel a couple months ago and have been binge-watching in chronological order ever since. I finished the last one last weekend, and now I'm watching one on the first day released! I enjoy all your adventures and am looking forward to many more in 2022.
You might have already seen other mudlarkers but I recommend that you watch,some of the people in the end of this video.
Nicola White and Si finds ,mostly on the Thames.
A personal favourite of mine is Kit and Caboodlers ,a mother and daughter who are occasionally assisted by Oscar and their cat Sunny.
What great finds! The little bisque figure is so special. Wishing you all the very best for a happy and healthy New Year. ❤️🇦🇺🌹 xxx
Happy New Year! Can’t wait to see what we all find next year!
Wishing you health and happiness for the coming year. Hope the feilds and beaches you visit are filled with endless treasure. 😊
Best wishes Gail and Alex for a happy and healthy 2022! I very much enjoyed the account of the fairy pipes and your familial connection to them.
Amazing field you have there! I would definitely try to metal detect it, there should be dozens of coins and even more metallic relics to be found, especially if you're just finding them on the surface!
You can make beads out of the pipe stems and make bracelets with them They would look nice if you painted them like sponge wear.
Wonderful finds...wow! I love the legs and that tiny bottle and the tiny lady...so good to seek you both...I think your finds have a message that says to me that you are on the correct path for both of your. Love all the salutations...so much fun and information. My imagination goes wild!
For those who like the weird and wonderful, you should assemble a doll with your various body parts.. Wonder how wacky it would be?
HI GAIL AND ALEX !! IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN. YOUR VIDEO IS GREAT. JUST A THOUGHT, YOU COULD PUT PLASTIC BAGS OVER YOUR BOOTS OR SHOES AND TAPE THEM AROUND YOUR ANKLES TO KEEP THEM CLEAN. WELL THAT BEING SAID, LOVE THE LITTLE LADY YOU FOUND, REMINDS ME OF ST. BERNADETTE AT LOURDES. NICE FINDS. HOPE YOU HAVE MANY MORE YEARS OF TREASURES. HEALTH AND GOOD CHEER TO YOU. STAY SAFE.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I just saw a show about Bonniebridge, Scotland. It has the most UFO sightings in the UK. Perhaps you guys could go there and do some mudlarking and find UFO's
Hint for spring...if you come across very young stinging nettles, I would suggest that you pick some and make some tasty dishes . There are many recipes online. There are many benefits to eating it, but I am not sure if I would eat them if they grew in a dump. I would rather forage in the woods: Stinging nettle’s leaves and root provide a wide variety of nutrients, including:
Vitamins: Vitamins A, C
and K, as well as several B vitamins
Minerals: Calcium, iron,
magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and sodium
Fats: Linoleic acid,
linolenic acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid
Amino acids: All of the essential amino acids
Polyphenols: Kaempferol,
quercetin, caffeic acid, coumarins and other flavonoids
Pigments: Beta-carotene, lutein,
luteoxanthin and other carotenoids
Wonderful video Ladies! I loved the pipe history section, incredible that you are doing the same thing as your ancestor! I often wonder if Nicola White could be a descendant of Thomas White, he seems to have been the most prolific pipe maker in Britain and like you said "it's in the blood" The little lady is just gorgeous! Wishing you both a happy and healthy new year and I am looking forward to more amazing videos 😃💗 x
Your cake topping lady, looks like an interpretation of Red Riding Hood. Thanks for the year end wrap. That was lovel.
I loved watching and listening to your wonderful adventures in the 'Field of Dreams'.
Whatever you find out about the pottery pieces. I hope you just collage them all in a picture frame representing a year of collecting anyone would love to own. Nice finds and interesting history as well😎🇺🇲🎉
Happy new year to you and yours! Looking forward to another year of treasure and crafts. Thank you for being so gracious and taking us along with you.
Love the little berry lady! That field is a gift, so many great things found there, beads are always a fav...
What a wonderful tribute at the end. All of our favorite mudlarks saying Hello! 2021 was a better year because of your adventures. Gave us all something to look forward to each week. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year! ❤
I think the all the legs was the fields way to help you get through that mud LOL :-)
What a lovely day in the field! I really enjoyed watching you two.
Good morning ladies. I like the way that you look up the history of the things that you find. I think this is a good thing cuz it teaches people. Thank you all for your videos I think they are so cool. Stay safe stay healthy God bless.
Loved every moment of this video. But the ending with a recap of all the joint-mudlarking adventures with other muddy friends was so much fun as it brought back happy memories of times well spent. All the best to the Two of You for 2022!! xx Karen
Loved it. Mudlarking royalty too!
Love a blue bead! Amazing finds on the field of dreams that keeps on giving! Happy New Year everyone!💕💕WV🇺🇸
The little doll with cloak looks like a match striker
You do know those clay pipe stems would make interesting jewelry.
yes, we've made jewellery with them in past videos including glazing and firing them in a kiln to make beads! x
Thank you for putting a smile on my face and in my heart.
What an incredible mudlark! I don’t know how you find those tiny treasures in a sea of gray mud. And it must be so tiring to walk in it, too. Well done, ladies. Loved the family history! 👨👩👧👦 Happy New Year, Gail & Alex 🎊 Love from Michigan, USA 💕
What an interesting tiny bottle!
🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉 Awesome finds! 🤗
EnJoyed tagging along. Thanks for sharing. How fun! 💫 Peace abide... wishing you wellness, safety in all your treasure searching adventures. 🎁💛
Maybe use the extra pipe stems for making small wind chimes.
Love the little figure eating berries or cherries. Missed you two over the Christmas period and so pleased to see you back with us all again. Very interested in the fairy pipes and the lovely story you told us. A very Happy New Year to all your family from me Fairy Acorn.
Happy New Year! May this year bring the best finds ever!
Thank you! xx
Happy New Year everyone!
Loved this video so much I’ve watched it twice! Excited for your finds in 2023!
I loved the flashbacks with all the other Mudlarks at the end of the video. And Celia (Cecelia?) with the snail! So cute!!! ❤️ Happy New Year ladies! I wish you many wonderful finds in 2022.
You guys are so cute. Love watching… fun to watch what you find, make, and cathartic to put on before sleep. I so want to go out with you guys. Looks like a terrific time. Living in the US, we just don’t have the depths of things to find. Ours are aboriginal in nature.
I have a wood burning stove also and I really enjoy it especially on colder days
Happy New Year to the two of you! Your adventures and excitement never fail to make me smile. "May the best of your past be the worst of your future."
Thanks for a sweet start to the new year Alex & Gail!💕💕
At 16:33, were there 2 beads? The one you picked up wasn't the one I 💜thought 💜 you were picking up. 😲 To the right at about 45°? I'm NEVER right about what I think I've seen with you all 😁, but I'm trying to develop my skills for that far off day when I get to go mudlarking! Happy wonderful, healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year from snowy (!) Sesttle!! 👋🏼🙋🏽♀️✌🏽
Happy New Year! 🌻