Mudlarking the Thames London Amazing finds Part 1

Mudlarking the Thames London at Bankside. Part 1 of a great hunt.
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[@marlenebadyrka5817]

I LOVE THE SCENERY BILL .I AM FROM THE USA SO I DONT GET TO TRAVEL BUT WATCHING THSES VIDEOS IS A GOOD WAY TO SEE LONDON. THANK YOU

[@steven2212]

The old romantic having another dig, love it. A little gel on the mohawk, maybe some pink dye.

[@jde9095]

Those water pipes were so cool, rescue one :-). Enjoyed seeing your finds, Thanks for sharing.

[@julielumsden5184]

A change seeing you back in London and all that lovely mud

[@dredrotten]

The wheel in the mud is actually part of a machine that makes door knobs for low rise igloos. Excellent photography by the way too Bill.

[@toxigenic]

Came here via Nicola White, I love your enthusiasm. Treasure to me is anything interesting or historical.

[@scottlund4562]

Wonderful feeling the tingle you felt knowing Shakespeare may have had smoke from that pipe waif in and around a performance. It is the history and not the money. Notification bell set, as always, for part 2.

[@1dunwentnutz]

That wonderful wheel is from a wagon that carried extreme weight. I say that because of the number of spokes it has. It also appears to be quite wide. Being designed wide would have helped distribute the weight allowing it to be used on softer terrains. Usually wheels that were used to carry lighter loads had thinner ground contact and less spokes. I wish there were some way to rescue it and some of the tree drainage pipes. So much history being lost. Thank goodness, folks like you are documenting it.

[@jamiejeffers7217]

Amazing Bill. Love the history

[@stephenbray9816]

I used to dive in this small harbour here on Cape Breton Island, Canada. In the winter the big sea ice would come into the harbour and rip up the bed. In those crevasses I have found several pipes and shards of pottery even two pewter spoons a pewter plate and a goblet. I saved everything. Now I'm eager to go back and open up those boxes to try and identify some of it. Love your videos.

[@ChillBill1]

awesome!

[@natalieberrisford4504]

your approach is totally rignt I love thi mud larking thing thankyou for sharing

[@TravelBackroads]

Nice going Chill Bill. Thanks for sharing this.

[@THEDRAGONBOOSTER8]

Looks like great fun..

[@creightonworkman5531]

9:15 chill bill sporting a mohawk. looks kinda cool on ya

[@BeepingMad]

thank you for making this video. I enjoyed watching

[@jjgg1847]

Hi bill do you have to have a permit to be on the foreshaw does it last a day or week what are the rules please to mud larkingand are you allowed to metal detect ? You know your stuff and it's great to watch your videos 👍

[@ChillBill1]

check out pla.co.uk, you can google all that info.

[@415s30]

It's amazing how long some wood lasts in the right conditions. I find pieces of redwood they used for blocking over a hundred years ago and it's like new with saw marks and everything.

[@rosenchuck1]

Bill, you are chill.

[@ruthwalton3457]

everything is treasure 😊 i love the little bits of pottery i find. little pipe stems I have found very few poor bowls though. just doing it wrong 😂 thanks for the video 😊

[@ChillBill1]

Its all about where and how low the tide is....

[@bandicootcollector]

I don't think anybody else would even spot these things, and yet you know exactly what they are!

[@ChillBill1]

Years of experience but even as a kid I was always really good at the identify this photo game. The answer was always a 'hair comb.' :)

[@suddenlystupid]

USA here Mr. Bill, I know you made this video a few years ago but still very interesting to watch. I would like to venture a guess on the wheel, I believe it to be a wheel off a large chariot, those things sticking out the side look like they are dangerous.

[@sherryrector2275]

An engine wheel to a large ship. A cog to a giant watch. A giant spindle wheel for jack and the beanstalk giant’s wife. I think her name was Zelda.

[@connieward2042]

Chill Bill is so cute

[@legzakimbo1]

The object at 8:30 is Ye Olde Thames bath plug inserted into Ye Olde Thames plug 'ole!

[@ChillBill1]

I better not pull it out then.

[@BoiseG]

Awesome Bill. Can't wait for part 2!

[@guycroft318]

the wheel thing looks like a casting core from a foundry - for making railway wheels...

[@pattyfarghaly1821]

I love when you mudlark.

[@sylviajones4907]

"This mud is making me excited..." 😀

[@AngelaFaithHodge]

Incredible video, Bill! Love it and I love you too!♥♥♥

[@erichaskell]

In Washington a lane of road was removed to add a ten foot wide pedestrian sidewalk. Traffic jammed up at peak hours but narry a pedestrian maybe seen.

[@AbandonedNorthJersey]

Do you go magnet fishing ? The Hudson River by me should be called the Mudson. Plus most of its coastline is getting developed and never has relics on its shores .I still go looking though as I have found stuff .

[@maryleblanc1788]

Love watching your treasure hunting! : )

[@cuddles6938]

I'm guessing the wheel was used as a type of gear that humans would push around to either lift cargo off the ships onto the dock above, or for winding ropes up.

[@triac777]

The wheel in the mud appears to have been an anchorage point. A wheel was probably used to distribute the load over a larger, more muddy and softer bottom. It is cleated down by several piles driven in at angles. An anchor like this would probably be used by a small craft pulling at a low angle. A large ship pulling straight up would have plucked it rite off the bottom. OR, maybe it was a place where prisoners were chained at low tide and left to drown in the rising tide. Gruesome thought.

[@ChillBill1]

I think it must be an anchor made out of a heavy wagon wheel. Very interesting artifact.

[@triac777]

Interesting indeed. I'm surprised it has not rotted away.

[@sarahstrong7174]

Please tell me is that wheel wood or metal? Its difficult to tell, with it being wet etc.The Tudor water pipes look like they are made of tree trunks. Got some like that in Totnes but it is said they are Roman.

[@cherylmatthews7172]

Chill Bill I just started following your channel. However I've been following aqua chigger, and Nicola which some of their videos have you in them. I really enjoyed the ones with you and aqua chigger on your adventure in Italy. Wonderful trip. I enjoy your channel and this morning your new fancy hair do. Very in-style. lol. I'm going to enjoy watching some of ur older videos. Have a wonderful day.

[@rutikuiwa8427]

My favorite finds is old pipe! Thanks Bill and u are very Chill Bill LOL

[@nofuture6881]

Life in old London , smoke a pipe & toss it in the River...

[@suettheartistickamillion9996]

You need a grabber picker up bill. i use them for picking things up out of the streams and eyeballed things i find on the ground so i dont have to bend down on much at 59. lol

[@electricwheels411]

Quite a few good pipe bowls from that search Bill. Very well done indeed Sir. ATB GL & HH LittleJohn Metal Detecting

[@jofuji8255]

One dead cyclist is one too many. Ergo - cycle lanes. Great vid and finds 👍😉

[@SmallWonda]

COOL Bill! :)

[@colleenrose5355]

Perhaps the wheel was on one of those wagons the Victorians use to take to the beach with them. They'd take them right down into the water.

[@UncleJackOnline]

I think the wheel is an old iron cart wheel and was just an anchor point for something, the staves wedged in at angles in it to stop it being pulled loose or turning in the mud. I have no idea whey someone would do that when it seems to be right next to a post. I may have nip up to London and look at that and the posts meself

[@tenchimuyo32]

That wheel looking thing reminds me of a chandelier. The chain would have held it up.

[@eddieoi8906]

took me awhile to find you again on KZbin Bill..you were right tobacco was in Britain in the late 1500s..happy mudlarking

[@ChillBill1]

Sir Wally brought it back and weve been hooked ever since. Why not subscribe and click the bell. :)

[@VoklstWestie]

that big wheel is from a 'conestoga wagon' or chuck wagon or pioneer wagon, its geing used there as an anchor or dock hitch to tie off/up a boat? works well Im sure.

[@ChillBill1]

I think that is about right.

[@robplotts9412]

The stuff that could be in that river. Especially coinage. I do think that wheel is possibly an old old train wheel. If it is it would surely be heavy enough for an anchor.

[@ChillBill1]

its a slim possibility its a train wheel from the very early days, but more likely a heavy wagon wheel. Past the low tide line it will be stuffed with coins!

[@sherryrector2275]

You made me get my metal detector out. Watch out American soil. Not nearly as interesting as old mother England but I love her.

[@davidstephens8547]

that wagon wheel looking thing looks more like a Lid to a under ground pipe

[@magpie73]

great video bill new sub here your quite a funny guy. gl.hh steve

[@usakindatheartflower6229]

your haircut is that 90's punk rock? and who's the gentleman with u?

[@hellomcflyy]

I wonder if they would let you have one of those Tudor water pipes ...given they are going to be washed away - one of the smaller sections would be neat - though they are sort of large...

[@ChillBill1]

there is nothing to stop anyone taking them except the shear weight. They would disintergrate once they dried out.

[@hellomcflyy]

yeah- that is what I figured - you would need a big vat of hot wax and let it replace the water in the wood....it would be a neat project for someone...'

[@altonriggs2352]

could the wheel be a horizontal gear...the uprights serving as teeth.?

[@iamj9127]

I am visiting London in August. I mentioned mudlarking to my friends and they had no ideas what I was talking about. Do you have suggestions for finding mudlarkingable spots for a novice?

[@ChillBill1]

Do a search for 'Thames river stairs.'

[@THEDRAGONBOOSTER8]

I was detectoring and found a 1827 half penny 4 days ago,here in Tasmania Australia..

[@ChillBill1]

Very cool!

[@thurin84]

"touching our ancestors" well, if the consent. 8:48 martian tripod foot?

[@Zsoltanovic]

9:24 you probably missed a coin, left under near the button you found.

[@littlejimmy2855]

you need to move across the pond and live with chigg. more room over here mate

[@davidleach4811]

So the pipe bowls are three hundred year old cigarette butts.....?

[@michmvp]

Looks like the underside of a man hole cover. (don't know if you use the same terminology)

[@paulinekaelin9242]

Why do you find so many of those clay pipes? Did they throw them away like cigarettes?

[@jimnorthland2903]

The concrete slab with the chain attached at the end of the video is indeed old. At least by this Alaskan's point of view. The chain is heat forge welded by a master blacksmith.

[@ChillBill1]

Very interesting

[@markblueticksrbest4928]

Why so many pipes in the river? Anyway, I subscribed a couple of weeks ago and I really look forward to all your videos. Keep them coming! From across the pond in Ohio, cheers!

[@modelleg]

Is it true that Shakespeare was smoking hemp?

[@debiesu]

Love your videos. I've been meaning t ask, is there parts of the Thames that you can mud lark on without a permit?

[@ChillBill1]

The Port of London has maps and rules at pla.co.uk

[@debiesu]

Thank you so very much!

[@PaulioMaldinio]

How Many People Threw there Pipe and Bowl in The River? I Personally reckon a Ship Must Have Sank That was FULL of them for Export/Import

[@triac777]

Maybe they were smoking crack in them and tossed them to keep from getting pinched by a Bobby.

[@ChillBill1]

its a bit of a mystery, but it seems that people did indeed throw them away like cigarette butts. But I think the stems would also snap so some would be discarded when they were snapped short.

[@matlyons5618]

bill take me larking 👍I buy you dinner 😆

[@revol148]

I'm starting in the spring - give me a shout of you want to meet up!

[@cassidywest5539]

What were those two pipes for? Sewage runoff?

[@ChillBill1]

its a good question. I don't know. Sewage would have been a lot later.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Ships 🎡?

[@Treasuretom]

I liked the video. I think you're right in that wheel is pegged down to act as an anchor. I've not see one with pegs before. Also, if you believe in global warming and don't want the Thames foreshore to disappear with rising tides shouldn't you be in favour of cycle lanes and reducing car traffic? ;)

[@ChillBill1]

Foreshore protected by the Thames Barrier.

[@Treasuretom]

Yes, to a point. (Although I suspect when it becomes underpowered for it's purpose a bigger one will be built). Either way, as far as I know, it's only supposed to hold back unusually high tides. Rising sea levels will still effect low tides I presume.

[@ChillBill1]

Only 7000 years ago the sea was 350ft lower and the UK was attached to France and all the way to Germany. Change happens...

[@Treasuretom]

Just to be pedantic, 7000 years ago you're only looking at about 10-15ft difference in sea levels. You have to go back about 14000 years to hit the 350ft mark, but I see the point, and if you go back 16000 years sea levels were about 400ft lower, which is incredible. I concur that change does happen but Global warming is a proven, preventable, and man-made change and it's a little sad that we don't do more as a species to prevent it. I'm not sure why I'm discussing climate change on your mudlarking video and I'm sorry if it's not very relevant but I often think about how man made rising sea levels will affect our hobby, let alone planet!

[@ChillBill1]

Interesting, how much of that 400ft sea level change is man made and preventable?

[@KENNEY1023]

it's a lid to the underworld

[@ChillBill1]

could be! or the Thames' plughole.

[@stephenbray9816]

With the older angled pipe bowls one could smoke the pipe in the rain with the bowl pointing downward and the tobacco would not fall out.

[@ChillBill1]

I've seen pictures of that but frankly I'd expect the tobacco to fall out as the core shrunk on burning. Maybe that's why they went out of fashion.

[@stephenbray9816]

Lol, I bet it did fall out. But imagine you could have a smoke and warm your hands up at the same time. Try that with a wooden pipe.

[@grumpy1311]

well done Mr Bill! Anorexic mud! 😄 i know what you meant, anaerobic! ( I can't even talk correctly on camera so never mind me haha! ) Almost motivating enough to for me to have a go at the back shore! Was that blue green base layer with the tree stumps showing old clay? if so that's hot stuff! 👍

[@ChillBill1]

..yes clay.

[@WayneTheSeine]

ha ha.... the bike lanes....oh yes, great economics our leaders have. We have a major business street where the city banned all parking on both sides of the street to turn the parking space into bike streets....where No bikes Ever travel. We are a city of 70,000 and I guarantee you there aren't 30 people who travel by bike. The businesses are outraged as everyone has to park in the rear in areas that are dark, unkept and dangerous....then, walk around the building to the front....bright aye! Many of the businesses are closing....no wonder.

[@canadianwaif]

You should wear gloves to delve into that nasty muck and pollution!

[@therevster9828]

dont get ya feet wet Billl keep it goig mate.

[@PaulApplebyphotography]

What's happened to you dude? It's been about 4 months since I watched one of your videos and you've gone all 'cowabunga', 'rad' ....ott.

[@ChillBill1]

Booyakasha dude!

[@eddieoi8906]

no tobacco in England in the 1500s

[@ChillBill1]

Around 1580 I believe and it is said to have taken off very fast.

[@eddieoi8906]

thank you for the clarification Bill..

[@BLIGHTY1000]

top banana

[@iscahistoryhunter4223]

Cycle lanes.......Rediculas