Coin Hoard! - Mudlarking River Thames in Gravesend

[@Sifinds]

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[@tinarobertsstudios]

Two grown men on their hands and knees, scraping in the gravel for pennies. That's entertainment!!!!! Thanks guys! Happy hunting and have fun!

[@jamesgame8573]

The knives are Sikh Kirpan not surprising as Gravesend is home to a large Sikh community and has one of the largest Sikh temples in Europe

[@anniehereinspain3096]

Another great day! Thanks for showing us your passion.

[@judithtrigg1694]

With this amount of offerings you and steve are mudlarking God's.

[@joannhempen8210]

This guy with you looks like the guy you go on the Airboat with. Another great video!

[@nkhand3911]

I just ran across this video and wanted to say thank you. My grandfather was born in Gravesend in 1900. He immigrated to Canada in 1909 and eventually ended up in Michigan. It was interesting to see the area. Hoping you have "Luck in the muck".

[@tedex8100]

Wow ! Never seen anything like this before,a bit like beach combing. I'd love to have a go at this. Thanks for posting such an enjoyable video. Liked and subbed.

[@Sifinds]

Cheers Tex

[@dbn52]

Now that looked like fun. I enjoyed this. Thanks from Chicago. Go England Bring it home!!!COYS

[@Sifinds]

dbn52 Thanks mate! It's coming home!!! 🦁🦁🦁

[@lissymoz959]

Hi Si, new sub here. Just been watching through some of your videos, nice work!! So interesting to find you have been to Gravesend - close to where I live. Looking forward to watching more, thank you.

[@triptechable]

"You're raking it in!" Got a silly laugh from me!

[@maverick50616]

looks like a barge lost all of its cargo of sweetcorn and rice

[@kevlandy]

Thank goodness our churchyards are not full of 'offerings' of old sausage rolls and eccles cakes.

[@louisesinn7747]

So wanted to pick up that sea glass beside you as you were showing your finds!

[@Coinpicker]

The “Samurai” statue is a Chinese souvenir of Xian’s Terra Cotta Warriors discovery. First Emperor Chin of China who was buried with thousands of warrior statues to go into the afterlife. Cool finds! CP

[@Sifinds]

Coinpicker Thanks. You are spot on!

[@changarookitty6920]

At 5:58... This is a statue of Shiva holding baby Ganesha on his lap with Ganeha's mother Parvati. The statues head is broken off. Ganesha is one of several water gods Hindus worship. I croped and enlarged photo of statue on rock and then search on web for similar statue. Near end of video I see the Chinese statues you're talking about. I thought you were talking about 5:58...

[@emilyjayne77]

@@Sifinds I have a question 🙋🏻‍♀️ you have a license to dig (I think) up to 2m. Q: what’s the deepest hole you have dug & what was the item? I’m loving your videos xx thanks

[@Sifinds]

@@emilyjayne77 Yes I do, but only dug twice. Nothing much apart from a rose farthing and a few pipes. Not worth it really. It’s mega hard work for little reward. But saying that I may try it again one day. Lol

[@emilyjayne77]

@@Sifinds thank you for your reply 😊 I think you should do a Live Q&A sometime 🤔 I bet there’s loads of folk with questions for you. Mud larking is so interesting! I love all of the history, right there at your fingertips. Wonderful! Show us your favourite treasures you own 😊 I for one would really enjoy seeing your favourite things. 😃

[@simonclayton3390]

Uncle Bens been mudlarking by the looks lol

[@stannousflouride8372]

The little cups are Diwali lamps. They hold oil or a candle and are lit in celebration.

[@lorellife616]

I enjoyed this, but I found it a little hard to hear. Nice job though.

[@terribleperson7866]

He probably has one of those waterproof GoPro cases on because of all of the water

[@barbaraverdoorn9076]

For someone who grew up in the middle of the USA in a very small, mostly white, Christian community, I have never seen those little pots and statues! I have been to the Gulf of Mexico, a couple of places in Mexico, and the Atlantic several times. But never seen as much variety of things! So cool to watch you find it all! Thank you for sharing. I would be out there every day, hunting!

[@Nicola.S.]

Very interesting thanks lads 💖😘

[@darlenemefford3259]

So much fun to watch your videos thank you for sharing ,🧐

[@Sifinds]

Thanks for watching! Sub for more vids soon!

[@raybowhutan]

You are on an ancient temple/castle which went through a mega disaster, most likely a huge volcano eruption. There's chambers beneath which links to neighboring mountains. Coins and relics embedded within volcanic glass/limestones or clay. Look for big tree, the chambers should be right next to it. And don't forget to remove the ''main boulders''. Cheers....

[@Sifinds]

Raymond Tan Yes that's the only rational explanation! 🤔😉

[@gyselapacheco1254]

I believe the rice, corn and coins are all part of several offering to that deity Si filmed.

[@Anitar70]

I came here from Nicola's channel. I feel like I'm cheating on her now.🤔 Great channel though, I can't believe all the things you find!!

[@funeralbillii9172]

If I were you guys I'd buy (or rent) a metal detector and go back there. I mean, with all the stuff you found, just imagine what you missed!! Those little knifes are very interesting also, very cool!!

[@Sifinds]

I do detect Bill, lots, but sometimes things are just on the surface. Maybe one day I'll go back and detect it!

[@laurafromli8222]

Si-finds Very Cool 😎

[@MrStreetboy80]

Hello there from over the waters 👋 I like to mudlark over my side of the thames We get a lot of clay pipes and pottery over here. I think a lot of it’s from the old sailors from the docks years ago. There she’s loads of pottery around coalhouse fort area. Haven’t found any areas where there’s offerings found though.

[@Sifinds]

MrStreetboy Hi! Do you find any military items?

[@ramblingrob4693]

i never found a clay pipe there

[@celiamorelli8646]

Thank you for the interesting video.Looks like someone left an offering of rice and yellow peas. Nothing to feed in there. Lots of cool stuff though. Cheers!

[@Sifinds]

The yellow peas are sweetcorn, thanks for watching!

[@LizMcNamara47]

Looks like a site of devotional offerings, coins, rice, prayer plates, knives

[@Katseye102]

What a haul! Guess not many people had been there hunting before....wow!

[@kayegb7938]

Amazing... No stone left unturned.. 😊

[@ThePennyPickerJerichoJoe]

Looks like you guys are on the level. That’s good on KZbin these days. Good day.

[@Sifinds]

Jericho Joe Cheers Dude!

[@Suebee1988]

LOL. You should take all those clay oil offering cups and just stack them up next to the wall. "Recycled for your offering convenience." LOL

[@Adventureswithvinnie]

I don’t mudlark but I do magnet fish, I’m surprised how many tyres and trolleys are there. If I’m ever down that way I will go there and just try to clean it up

[@AdHdRodeo]

Mudlarking! Love it.

[@steffenmoss7119]

I found 200 b&h gold on the side of the river just a down from there , only a couple of packs were a little damp .

[@Sifinds]

Steffen Moss lucky you!!! 🙂

[@lexieslarksandcrafts]

Hope that sweetcorn hadn’t already been digested 😂

[@Sifinds]

Hahaha! Me too!

[@greenmillie1964]

Thanks for sharing guys x

[@Sifinds]

Thanks! More vids to come - subscribe for updates!

[@marlenebadyrka5817]

OW I LOVE SEEING THE BOATS GO BY

[@Toon-Tony]

Some bloody sweetcorn and Rice isnt there mate 😂😂

[@andrewjones1058]

so many comments i could make love the vid top stuff but i spat beer when i realised what you said about mudlarking in rice.nice one sir

[@Sifinds]

andrew jones Thanks Andrew! I hate the thought of spilt beer 😉 🍻

[@monjiaitaly]

You could build a nice little house out in the country with all the bricks and stones on the Thames.

[@Drobium77]

100 year's time, all those offering bowls will be a future mudlarker's clay pipes

[@Automedon2]

in 100 years, the UK will be a Muslim country and the Hindus would have already been massacred, so that stuff will be real history.

[@lindagomez3114]

Thank God for you and Nicola I have my Peace

[@silviadarocha7381]

In 200 years the mudlarkers of the future will love findings these little offering urns.

[@sharonpape4343]

It looks like it might be a favorite offering spot. That's why there is rice?

[@Sifinds]

Correct. They offer that in too. But it’s idiotic to throw the bag in too

[@hammerstoneartifacts4986]

I have to "level" with you. Great finds.....

[@azaleaacres]

Throwing all that trash into the river is disrespectful, not only to the country but the land and the animals that have to swim through all their crap Good on you for cleaning some of it up. Can only imagine the amount of garbage they’d haul out of there if they organized a river cleanup

[@usakindatheartflower6229]

I agree, I think the foreigners should be fined

[@lindadaniel9416]

I think it's terrible that people would do that. I understand some of it has been there a long time. The people that has committed misdeamors should have to perform community service and clean this mess up. In the USA some states have mandatory community service for certain offenses. I couldn't believe all the trash when I first started watching these.

[@emiliobonas7341]

I dunno if animal life is possible in Thames

[@crystalheart9]

I am shocked at the amount of trash in that river!

[@gerardhaarman6820]

Azalea Acres he's not cleaning up at all ! He's taking the small items he likes home .

[@Tob2n]

Well done, Simon.

[@JacobafJelling]

Looks like the Ganges with all those offerings and the shit on the foreshore. Like all the offerings and things clogging

[@susanmasuoka630]

From: SUSANN. Hello Si. Could you explain to us foreigners abroad the value relationship of some coins you pick up? You do a fantastic job identifying monarchy reigns fo us, But what is the relationship of a ha” penny to a shilling? Or a 2-P coin to a 10-P?

[@erinnmutz1152]

LMAO, the pigeons scared me too.

[@AdamosDad]

Is this the Thames or the Ganges.

[@Automedon2]

If it was the Ganges they'd be finding bodies

[@changarookitty6920]

Gravesend is/was a landing for boats on the Thames river on the way into London from the sea.

[@Noactualdirection]

Fascinating video subscribed

[@Sifinds]

Richie Wisbey Great to have you onboard! Plenty more vids to go through!

[@blipblip88]

What fun! You sure you weren't on the River Ganges?

[@bluetoad2001]

a real hoard for sure all good

[@sb-bg7vc]

Why is there so much corn and rice laying around?

[@Sifinds]

s b Local Indian people leaving river offerings we think

[@simongowan9845]

What a good bit to find stuf

[@larryarevalo4518]

Si , Steve, if you avoid the moving of the camera against the floor, that would made a nicer to see video. Just focusing or aproaching the find. Its nice to see your findings. Good luck guys !

[@Sifinds]

Larry Arevalo The camera was loose, my technique and camera has improved vastly since then!

[@casaquiari]

Thank you for sharing your finds, I'd love to be able to do that. I have admit though that the amount of trash makes me angry.

[@tomfisher2103]

I nice haul overall good sirs!

[@lyarnes]

Ah, he needed that little dish for his coin haul!

[@lindagomez3114]

Coins and rice and shells Oh my!

[@eba44]

Rice and lentils.... that must stink a bit after a while?

[@282828lisa]

Could all those coins in the Thames be an offering for whatever prayers were offered?

[@funeralbillii9172]

You could make a business of selling little clay offering bowls at the river, lol

[@Sifinds]

Well they are modern hindu religious offerings, so even removing them is a touchy subject. So selling them would be very audacious : )

[@k-dramabookgirl1574]

I wonder what that scary tunnel was for 🤔

[@Jude-to7lw]

What were those beautiful little pots you were passing up?

[@TheVidusi]

They are offering pots, they would hold offerings to the gods and anole lamp or candle and set adrift probably at Divali.

[@jel5034]

3.50 i'm pretty sure that's the broken eye of a fishing rod. Keep sharing.

[@JacobafJelling]

Bet you could find some mad stuff in that tunnel, if you just focused 100% on that :p

[@5barks280]

In another video you mentioned scraping wasn't permitted on the Thames

[@sandscratcherbri5574]

nice scratch about there lads

[@inkedskindeep9941]

I know there's rules as far as mudlarking but are shifting screens allowed? Maybe like a 1/4in size

[@ryansoutdoorschannel3428]

If there is a God I guarantee he doesn't appreciate trash "offerings" being thrown into the river ...

[@PerryArt420]

or picked up and thrown back in... I would have removed that knife,

[@jeffmckenzie7282]

Was the hoard of coins from a lost coin purse or were they an offering? Great fines and video.

[@TheVidusi]

The Asian communities have said yes, once the offering has been made they can be taken.

[@maarinabudd]

Enough coins for a bag of chips and a can of pop 😂

[@marlenebadyrka5817]

I AM AMAZED BY ALL THE OFFERINGS FROM DIFFERENT RELIGONS FOUND THERE!!!

[@nicolawhitemudlark]

Awesome! 😊

[@thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615]

13:45 terra-cotta Chinese soldier they have been making them for a few hundred years but because of the lack of wear it’s probably newer

[@MsSpiritualist]

could the amount of coins found in one site be offerings?

[@waimaariahemara5047]

It is that obvious they are, with all the other items of offering around.

[@MilesB1975]

All Things return to the Sea eventually. Men and Money and Mountains.

[@StephBer1]

The river authority should employ you to clean up the shores. And you keep what you find!

[@stephenmcvicar2726]

Exactly !!!! He'll maybe they could help with the transport of all that so all you would need to do is deposit it a big bin...

[@turk182uk]

the item you found at time stamp ( 3:42 ) is the eye from a fishing rod 100%

[@Sifinds]

Spot on pal!

[@hilton11000]

3:52 looks like an old fishing rod ring

[@TheVidusi]

The kneeling soldier is another terracotta soldier, probably a souvenir from Xian, China.

[@screwthecabal6453]

How fun!

[@Sifinds]

Endless!

[@invokalink162]

Might sound like a stupid question, but why is the foreshore full of rice and lentils???

[@endurance8910]

ARE YOU ALLOWED TO TAKE THE SCRAP METAL TO WEIGH IT IN AT THE SCRAPPY ?

[@indiana146]

Amazing

[@Sifinds]

indiana146 Thanks pal!

[@Woodysback]

Is that whole river just one big garbage dump?

[@PompeyChris71]

Like any river. Difference is, without it, we wouldn't have all of these wonderful historical finds.

[@glenbe4026]

IT is NOT like any river. It seems maybe like English rivers (since there is another mudlarker who dins a ton of stuff in rural streams suggesting dumping stuff in water is an English pastime.)

[@chrisdobbs9155]

It's a river that's seen continual human habitation for over five thousand years. For at least 2,000 of those years it has been not just populated, but densely populated. Hard not to have trash in a river through a populated area, let alone in an area that has seen this much activity for so many years. Makes me jealous. If I go to the big river I live nearby here in the states, I'm only looking at just over 200 years of activity, and only 100 or so of dense population.

[@TheVidusi]

No, just bits. It is a beautiful river with magnificent wildlife such a salmon, sea trout, sturgeon and many birds and otters.

[@teresamoore3577]

Hi Si & Steve please please could you add more volume to your video as I’m a bit hard of hearing to quite to watch really but I will try keep safe xx❤️🙏🏻🇬🇧💋

[@trishscobell9920]

Do you need a permit to mudlark on that part of the thames? or is it just between the thames Barrier and teddington Lock?

[@iggy-not-pop9875]

When you film the ground while you walk without stopping, it makes me dizzy & I have to look away or it gives me a headache. I always feel your are passing or overlooking potential treasures by not inspecting the ground you cover. I guess one can't actually see Everything ! But it is frustrating. I would still like a big bucket of the pebbles & water - washed pottery ! ( Uninspected ). Some of the little white shard look like Rice ! WAIT ! it IS Rice ! DID YOU SHARE THE COIN HOARD? Whose Hand Held All Those Coins?

[@alynicholls3230]

i wonder if that rice and corn was dumped on purpose, at a beach i used to detect a nasty old swine spread about 2000 thumb tacks around as he didn't detectorists on "his beach", even though it belongs to the queen, he got 200 hours and a ban from the beach for that stunt.

[@lynneseaward6437]

England is beautiful,

[@kinghousebd4748]

you were practically touching it

[@annekabrimhall1059]

Can I please buy a bag of your regular coins! I need a bunch of English coins that look worn.

[@kathyblake1943]

What isthe corn all about? Part ofcthe religious stuff?

[@Sifinds]

We think it was an offering alongside the rice

[@Chad.Telecaster]

Looks like someone through up

[@denaredford6701]

Looks like a Indian sacrifice to the river .

[@stephenmcvicar2726]

It would be a Herculean project but WOW if you all could pullout ALL that nasty trash from all the places you hunt ... man can you imagine the impact it would have on the eco system ? Now I'd come help you do that ... it could be an AMAZINE THING FOR ENGLAND to do be the first country to stand together ,rich , poor , everyone just picking up all that waste and recycling as much as possible for the bigger good ... Nosilla peace brother