Maritime

Hello Tide Travellers! Join me back down on the foreshore to uncover maritime finds with a Royal Navy connection.
Help me identify some weird mystery finds, and hear more about one of the most curious competitions...ever?
As well a chunky finds relating to the working river, I've got lots of little finds to satisfy the metal maniacs amongst you.
Let's get cracking!
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[@GeoRick]

That salt lick contest is very strange. Love it! 🙂 Thanks.

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hey Both! Yes! It's fantastic, isn't it? What a load of money they raised, too!

[@lovelyskull3483]

Thank you Marie. I enjoyed this so much. Cheers.

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hey Skully! Thanks as ever for watching and commenting. x

[@charlesperez9976]

Oh this is a lovely video. The salt lick! I thought you stumbled across a bit of ambergris! Yes,we place salt licks out around here,in the wooded places for deer. It’s because their habitat is going away,it helps them out,and also helps to keep them from absolutely devouring our gardens! Also,the bone bits that you found,to be used for knife handles,etc, I have a few bits of mastodon ivory,I carved one into a little self portrait pendant,the other is still intact,a beautiful bit of semi-fossilized ivory. Ah! Monika is a treat! I had such a fun conversation with her at the maritime museum last year!

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

LOVE the salt lick competition, that's so strange USA (or how I imagine it to be, kinda drawing parallels with our strange folk customs such as cheese rolling!) We do have salt licks here too, I just would never have recognised it as such. As it is, Whit Deschner says he doubts very much that my weird find is salt lick, for obvious reasons...melting away in water. Ooh would like to see that self portrait pendant, that's cool. Yeah Monika is a font of info and will happily chat for hours!

[@charlesperez9976]

I need to find the self portrait mastodon ivory piece,I am drowning in possessions,it has overtaken me.

[@charlesperez9976]

I found the pendant,I sent you an email with pics😊

[@janedickson-gw4pb]

I live in America & never heard of a salt lick competition!! That is hilarious!! We have put them out for deer & cows. So I knew what you talking about!! Enjoyed your video & explanations of finds!! Keep on discovering & sharing your videos !!! ❤Jane from Alabama USA!!! 😊

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hey Jane! It's so great, I love it. And they've raised so much money! Thanks for watching, Jane in Alabama!

[@beccabooface1]

It's gypsum, it is found in the cliffs here on the Coast of West Somerset UK. We have an old working harbour here so maybe that's how it got to London . Some folks call it alabaster. My father was a geologist so I know a few rocks lol I think it's used in th production of plaster?

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hey Rebecca! Thanks for that, yes gypsum/alabaster seems to be the resounding answer. It is indeed used for plaster (I used to use a lot of plaster so that bit I do know haha).

[@lindagomez3114]

Hi Marie,👋 Omg, cow lick Roflmao😂😂😂 I almost spewed my tea all over. 😂😂

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hahah Linda, I know! I love it! Cow Lick Comp!

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for this day’s video. Always interesting to see what you’re finding! See you on the next, Marie! 🇬🇧👍🙂🇺🇸

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Thanks Martin! Always good to hear from you. New long player coming soon!

[@martinmarsola6477]

@@OLDFATHERTHAMES Will wait!

[@karenpelletier5707]

I have to admit that I have never heard of the salt lick contest and I have lived all my life in Oregon. That is an eastern Oregon high desert thing. Hahaha!

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Haha! Well I am now Eastern Oregon High Desert Ceremony ready!

[@pigoff123]

😢you missed the black pipe next to the broken pipe bowl.

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Bottom of the screen? Looks too big to be pipe stem...I fancy it's a rod of charcoal or something bettery related. Well spotted though!

[@barbaracatalano6299]

Great video!! Love your finds. It is the items I would take home. Can you tell we bore easy over here? Salt lick contest. Geesh.

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hey Barbara! Haha, we have our own very strange customs and competitions too. I love that Whit and the Salt Lick Competition has raised so much money for charity. That's fantastic. Thanks as ever for watching and saying kind things!

[@lisawilson2912]

That strange thing looks like agate stone to me.

[@natesquestyouknowthatsrigh8269]

😊

[@denisebowker9753]

Is it a fatberg

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hehe Denise, that may have crossed my mind too.

[@exsubmariner]

Im sorry to be the bearer ot bad news but the bone Carthage is the remains of a rays skull probably thornback ray as they are the predominant UK species

[@OLDFATHERTHAMES]

Hello! Thanks for the info. Well, whatever it is, it remained on the foreshore to continue its journey in the water.