Mudlarks Find Small Lead Coffin Eroded from Riverbank & There's Something Inside!

[@deborahbryant7530]

I'm so happy that I came across yalls video & watched it !!! Awesome video. I'm from the USA & I have never seen anything like that little coffin in my life. Now the codd bottle marbles I absolutely love & I happen to have a whole codd bottle with its marble still inside & I absolutely love it !!! I bought it in a antique store in a town I used to live in in Black Mountain, NC. I was shocked to find one in my country cause I learned from the beautiful Nicola White mudlarker in London, England that they come from England !!! I want to find more. I love Nicola's videos & I know that I am going to love yours & mum's videos !!! I also would love to find some of those glass bottle stoppers, they are beautiful. Till next time, can't wait to see more !!! 🙂💕

[@maryjanew20]

How I love seeing tiny frozen Charlotte poking out from around and behind all your unique finds.

[@patriciakaviani9755]

Love how you place the doll amongst your finds as if she was helping.

[@tls8688]

Where’s Charlotte? Instead of Where’s Waldo?

[@barbaracalhau4168]

I missed you, glad to see you mudlarking again. I'm a sheller, I live in Hawaii. I applaud any one who recycles and upcycles, and I definitely applaud you. I enjoy your channel so much and I think I've watched them all. I especially enjoy all the research you share with us. Keep up the good work. Aloha❤

[@stacy5445]

Barbara, you should watch SiFinds. He is a mudlarkers from London and makes wonderful things out of what he finds along the Thames River! You may enjoy watching him!

[@rachelkoiks]

Huuuuuui! Hey I’m also from Hawaii. (Maui) 😂 I think we’re attracted to mudlarkers because we can’t get access to historic little treasures like that and so easily. They sit, waiting to be found. Where I’m at the soil is just too acidic. Complete opposite to the Thames. That clay mud is practically preserving a variety of materials including leather, for centuries. I can’t lie. I get a little jealous.

[@rachelkoiks]

@@stacy5445 And Nicola White Mudlarking. She loves to find things with names or dates and digs into the history. Sometimes she mudlarks with SiFinds.

[@harridan.]

​@@rachelkoiksShe is the queen of the mudlarks, always kind, always willing to travel to a new mudlarks location and lend her screen presence and name to help them get established.

[@harridan.]

​@@stacy5445he is always fun!

[@johnnabuzby6103]

Welcome back, Gail and Alex. I've been wondering if y'all are okay. I'm so glad you're back out and about on your mudlarking adventures. Cracking finds today. Much love from North Carolina! ❤️ 💙 That sherd with Donald on it might've once had the last name MacDonald instead... I saw the remnants of the c in your closeup. Thank you for braving the bitter cold and for letting us all tag along with you. 😊

[@lucymcrae162]

I agree, and I think most of us have a MacDonald somewhere in our ancestry lol

[@spikemenzies]

Happy new year! When I worked in an art studio in 1990s I'd get bored of making wildlife sculptures and create my own freaky figures, wizards, skulls etc. and give to friends..and I made a wee coffin.. with a brass cross on the lid and wee brass handles ..kinda like yours, about same size, but without the stabby pin thing, (if I knew i'd have added it) friend still has it in a display cabinet

[@itzfanaticplays260]

@10.20 them hands reminded me of the pierrot clowns back in the 1980s or so they became popular again. Anyone else think that too?? Welcome back ladies and A Happy New Year one and all 😊😊😊

[@marykunselman284]

I have one that sits on a ball

[@itzfanaticplays260]

There was so many different poses, I remember a friend who had her bedroom all fitted out with them, wallpaper, bedding, figures, lampshades the list was endless but the pottery found reminded me of them. 😊😊

[@blindcatvintage9181]

Regarding the stabby coffin- it really reminds me of a book I ran across once that was a reproduction of an early 20th century catalog of prank devices that were used in initiations for fraternities and lodge-type clubs. Some of them were pretty dark and morbid, and I wouldn't be shocked if this was somehow related to the coffin? Of course I can't remember the name of the book, but I believe it was the book The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Instruments about the DeMoulin Brothers Company. Looks like there are copies on amazon!

[@charlotteweaver9736]

I'll never get sick of seeing a bottle stopper! It's a dream find for me!

[@suemount6042]

I love finding them too Charlotte have no clue why I get so much pleasure from it but I do

[@pozhidayevakatie1681]

So happy they are BACK! since I've caught up with all the northern mud lark videos, there has been a hole in my heart that only Gail and Alex can fill!! 😂

[@eleanorlaurent2303]

Being the proud new owner of a piece of Alex's mudlarking inspired jewelry, I have a whole new appreciation for her finds 🩷 and I'm VERY excited for next week's reveal 😃

[@nikkitinks7330]

Thank goodness you’re back, it’s slim pickings for decent mudlarking videos atm! Very much enjoyed your trip to the foreshore guys - thank you and happy new year 🥳

[@dba750]

Si finds, Nicola white, etc,

[@sheenamoore3938]

WildKyle,SiFinds,Nicola White.

[@deloradeabel8487]

What a fun lark,the coffin ⚰️ has such an odd history!Thank you!

[@robinhendrickson511]

So happy to see you both again! Missed you.

[@MissMellyDi]

You ladies have been missed. I was so happy to see this pop up today!

[@peterduffield221]

I'm a new viewer and i must say i really enjoyed it so you will be hearing more from me dont know if thats good or bad for you 😂Loved the little coffin many thanks peter x

[@maryzefo3801]

Oh Alex I love your sense of humor😅😅😅😅😅

[@justjoy4239]

I love the tiny coffin so much! Lovely to see you both again

[@justjoy4239]

I was really hoping for a tiny skeleton 😁

[@NevaPovolo]

Missed your pleasant demeanor and your calm voice Gail❤. I’m always finding your older videos on KZbin, so nice to find a new video to watch. I’m knee deep in year “3 years ago” now! Enjoy watching you and your daughter go on adventures together. You are such a hero to Moms like yourself. It’s not always rainbows and cod marbles!!!! Bless you both! Oh, and IMy Goodness, I just have found the “Lost Tower Diaries”; and I am in restoration heaven!!!! You are so full of surprises and I am inspired to get out in the yard now. (Just watched you dig out that flower bed and replant the poppies!!!! ❤❤ to you both.

[@naomijacot4295]

Happy New Year Gail and Alex and welcome back….can’t wait for more mudlarking adventures in 2025

[@lorrainemacneil7438]

Happy New Year beautiful ladies! So happy to watch your first video of 2025!! XO

[@rockersfromaz3001]

Yay!! Now we can start the new year properly with Gail and Alex!! I hope you a wonderful Christmas! You’ve been missed! That coffin is so mysterious!! Very interesting! Love the sherds word! Gave me laugh!! Happy new year! Look forward to next weeks video and to 2025! ❤

[@Zandain]

Happy to see that you're back! hello from Denmark 🌸

[@deniseview4253]

I’m not tired of you ladies finding bottle stops. I’m amazed all the finds you dig up. ❤

[@dartmart9263]

Wow, I can’t even imagine ever having frozen ground where we live. But, then again, summer temperatures last so much longer over here, with temps over 100F for several weeks at a time. Greetings from East Texas (near Houston)!!!

[@nibblesnobbles]

Wonderful way to start the new-year 🎉 here's to lots more finds and laughter 😃

[@RenaeGinther]

I often see bits of things with letters that, if they were my initials, I would purchase after you make them into charms or other decorative items! I like to use letters/initials as decoration in my home. Hello to all from California!

[@kathymoreaux9467]

Great to see y’all out and about! But brrr I am not sure how much I could stand of digging in the cold frosty ground. Y’all have more grit than me! 😂 Great finds. The coffin is a very bizarre thing! 😮

[@Karyn1000]

I had to giggle when you said don't forget to watch next weeks video. Most of us are waiting , sometimes not so patiently waiting, for your video so it is rare that we would miss it!!! Ha! I'm glad you are back because I've been not so patient 😂

[@jamesblake7338]

Omg Alex you’re so funny about the things you like! It’s so great! You’ve got to figure out how to share what u make out of that funny porcelain bit please! ❤

[@kellyw.1779]

Hello Gail and Alex! Great to see y'all back and starting off 2025 in spectacular mudlarking fashion!! What a curious piece that little coffin was...so cool! Looking forward to this years adventures...Big hugs from Texas!!😍🤩

[@tashaanderson8238]

That doll leg with the brown boot is so cute! I loved your little coffin object.

[@calliegauldsheher7284]

I am dying!! The three words and your face expressions. I can’t stop laughing. I live in the USA and I can completely agree that it is a message. LOL and then you find the little coffin.

[@jamesrawson6659]

So glad you’re both back. Hope you both had a great Xmas. Missed ya both. Looking forward to more vids in this New Year from both your channels.

[@lisamoss5796]

Happy new year! ❤

[@Doro-f2v]

If I was with you I would be picking up stones as well! Happy mudlarking ladies!

[@marykunselman284]

Yes I love the stones I paint my critters on there

[@maryzefo3801]

​@@marykunselman284I think I saw a piece of Jasper I want to polish😊❤

[@ColleenHarriganStaver]

Welcome back ladies! I think we have all missed you! ❤

[@tinacluff2793]

You saw eyes I saw a dog nose with that little stone. Love the coffin.

[@LoriZabielski]

Hi ladies. Happy 2025. Will look forward to your next video. ❤ from Canada

[@angelikatrepos5161]

What a beautiful found, this coffin.... Hugs from France Angelika 🌼🌞🌷

[@melindatorres4654]

Missed you guys hope you had a great Christmas and new year from Florida

[@craftadventureswithsusanto808]

Happy New Year! So happy to see you back and what amazing finds! That coffin is something else!

[@kennethboydsr3966]

You too are something else we can both talk in harmony your words just blame together. It’s been really cold here in United States in Virginia. God bless you stay warm.❤

[@deedorothypapineau6920]

Ooo that looked chilly… but it is a great beginning to 2025. I look forward to next week.

[@bizburgess1947]

Loved your little cockery find. Heehee

[@gypsea23]

Happy new year ladies..🎉

[@dartmart9263]

I would pay for that funny piece of “nursery rhyme” pottery!

[@wendydwight3420]

Cheeky girl today !!!😂

[@leebrennan2609]

❤😊Love 5he little blue bird 🐦 that landed 9n your house while your chatting

[@ChristopherCirillo]

Despite the frozen ground along your foreshore there, it turned out to be a wonderfully exciting mudlark. That coffin is a super intriguing little curiosity. I love it. With your creative imagination, I bet you could easily fashion a similar little coffin pendant you could produce for jewelry; perhaps a modern spin on a memento mori with a gizmo button to reveal a little sterling skull inside the coffin. I’m so happy you’ve enjoyed some time off during the holiday, but I do look so forward to coming along on new and fun adventures in 2025. I’ve been wondering how the new renovations to your new door have weathered and endured the cold. I look forward to watching some new videos on your other channel, also! Happy hunting in the new year!

[@kokoboo2654]

It has been the longest 2 weeks without you 2! Welcome back!! 😊....nice finds for the new year 🎉🎉. Alex, I absolutely died laughing when you found that peice of pottery with the "cock p-p" on it 😂😂😂, unusual find indeed 😂, the brass knob was the finishing touch ☠️😵☺️...great finds Ladies!! ❤❤❤

[@daviddevos3518]

A Happy Weird Year! Nice finds already. You should have brought a roofers torch :)

[@nicklenights]

The dog’s face actually looks more like a polar bear! Especially with the rounded ear I saw. Polar bears and cold weather go together❤!

[@alicewall5363]

I enjoy your videos so much! Thank you for sharing your adventures with us!

[@carolmay5168]

Never get tired of bottle stoppers.

[@cynthiarowley719]

What happened to the two little hands!!!! Suitable for Window. Happy New Year!!🎉🎉

[@ullab.1984GO]

41:04 alien^^ All the best wishes for the new year and the next hundred years. All the best, health and well-being and super interesting finds from the past.The hands remind me of a figure of a French clown. I was about 4 years old and this aunt had such a figure in the display case, so around 1969/70.in saxony.That was just a flash of thought when I saw those hands.

[@bowlingbill9633]

Hello, your back ! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year to you both 😊xx

[@owlfethurz8377]

You found a lot of interesting bits, despite the cold! The hands are interesting...maybe some kind of secret sign? And the coffin...what an annoying joke to do o someone. I hope they cleaned it off after use before springing on the next person! Of course, Donald must be DJT! Praying for his safety; only a few more days until sworn in! Thanks for the video! Happy new year! Cheers!

[@GGMASherry]

A mudlarker in America takes antique bottles that the top Is broke off, and cut it off and make glasses out of them. They only do the ones that have writing on them. They sell them on Etsy I believe.

[@garetkonigsfeld2]

The shard is too funny it also looks like a gorilla making a fist in the background. It's really funny and will make a great pendant. Thanks for taking us along 👍 😂.

[@tinamiller8574]

I always love your choices of music.

[@michellecervantes8177]

Happy New years lovelies....coffin maybe ashes!!

[@zeenatbaer138]

Happy 2025 ! Great start .. so funny Alex with all the innuendos 😂 I wonder if the hands are the other way round like crossed over the chest, tricky one .. but what are the chances of most of the fingers still being attached. Love the little dog face so cute. The coffin, how bizarre, the victorians must have had a weird sense of humour... 😊

[@magsu]

Lovely to see you back! Happy New Year 😊

[@steventhomas4288]

A up you 2,, happy days are here again ❤❤xx

[@brianholcomb940]

Awesome finds, ladies. The hands look they are formed to be playing a piano. That coffin was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@x4steele-p9d]

Awesome video! Gonna show my daughter, she and I are going to start mudlarking this spring. We don't have the fortitude to brave the cold, like y'all. Lol! I'd say the message from the pottery shards is that Donald wound up in the infirmary because of his indiscriminate use of his..... 😂😂😂😂

[@nickandlaurihyde]

🤣😊🤣

[@stephenraney]

A joke writer’s dream finds just saying 🤣🤣🤪 It is a good day when The Northern Mudlarks post thanks 🥰🥰🤟🏼✌🏼🖖🏼😎

[@janscorza7549]

The double crossed hands look like when we were kids and used to make our hands into butterflies, lol

[@ryro5401]

I've never seen such a thing as the tiny coffin you found. It's an awesome find. So glad you found information on it.

[@MariamJehn-v4u]

My crazy precious girls!!❤❤

[@cjcarver6290]

Someone called Donald in an infirmary with tiny little... yeah, I know who that is!

[@NanaColeen]

Much love to both of you🥰 I love to sit and just listen to your sweet chit chat😎👍 and I love your finds🤩

[@susanthrelkel4403]

Very cool finds,thanks for sharing! Happy new years !😊

[@colleenmccarthy-evans3149]

Happy New Year and happy new outings to the places you love!

[@AmyWilcox-xb3sb]

Awww rock friend

[@marykunselman284]

Love the rocks

[@mariabean8627]

Love that bit of pottery, I'd buy it 😂 happy new year 🎉

[@rachelleenderle1326]

Your rock with the two holes would make the cutest owl. Get some paint and make him a little nest to sit in ❤️

[@Alan-kl5mn]

Happy New Year Gail & Alex 🎉 Alex's word pottery find was funny, I like silly humour like that 😂 For a hand warmer, if you get a empty can of pop, put a cut along the base with a cut upwards on both sides of the cut and push the flap in, so it's big enough for a tea tree candle, the whole can heats up to warm your hands and it's small enough to carry with you, don't forget something to light the candle

[@albertinadebeer4309]

Great finds!happy 2025.greets from Holland.✌️🍀

[@almclester]

Oh, I can’t believe you put that piece of glass down-the one with the scallop shells around the edge. You could have made a really awesome fan shaped pendant with it by wrapping a piece of decorative metal over the top, and using that metal to attach a bail. If you see it again, I’d be happy to sketch something that you can do with basic tools-if you can use a jewelry saw and drill, you can do something really nice with it.

[@nickandlaurihyde]

I saw Gail pick it up and set it down so fast I had to wonder if she had some kind of negative connection to an item that looked like it? Anyway I was shocked that she didn't pick it up to add to her collection? FYI, this piece of blown glass was a beautiful paperweight at one point. Much too big for a necklace! 😄 So maybe that's why she put it back because they are avoid pieces that are just too big to work with? Anyway, unfortunately we will never know unless she sees our comments and decided to clear things up for us. One can only hope!

[@959susanne]

Cracked me up when you found the knob "oh look I found a knob"😅😅😅😅

[@carolekinsey7835]

What an odd find that tiny coffin was. People going round pricking other people with sharp joke items. Oh how i bet they laughed. 🤦🏼😬 Anyhoo, a rare and strange find none the less. Well spotted and very well researched. Something I've not seen before. Ay and come on with the doll making. I'm waiting patiently to see that item made. Please hurry. 😊 Ugh its perishing here near Manchester 🇬🇧 too. We had -6 yesterday. Its a windy night tonight and our son said its freezing over again. Clear skies too. So it may well be like an ice rink tomorrow. Even the snows not melted yet. Winter draws on eh. Good to see you both back larking ladies. That river bank is great for surprises and i enjoy seeing what you find there. Catch you next time. Xx

[@daisymay4183]

Happy New Year ❣️ Hope You Are Happy Healthy Prosperity And Many Blessings. Love the video Ladies😊

[@margidaly6874]

Lovely to see you Happy New Year thanks for braving the cold. Looking forward to many more adventures.

[@ManchesterMudlarks]

great video Gail and Alex, just love the coffin toy thing is a very nice find ,

[@NorthernMudlarks]

Thanks guys xx

[@deborahroberts1300]

Happy new year nice to see you back again. Ooooo can't wait to see you next week.👋🦘

[@janicehoughtelling5137]

Glad to see you ladies in 2025 looking forward to lots of fun and amazing finds.ove from Tennessee USA

[@fishinwidow35]

Happy New Year. How many codd marbles did you find in 2024?

[@NorthernMudlarks]

You’ll have to watch next week’s episode! ☺️😉

[@Mummaearth]

Rather prophetic finds in many ways - very interesting too - a great start to the year from a more humbled old lady here ¬ I forget how busy life gets when you really are allowed to be part of it ! Many more blessing and finds for you both for the year and will look to make sure you get them too !!!

[@juliehampton3043]

Lovely to see you ladies I hope you had a lovely christmas.great hunt and some unusual pieces 😊xx

[@hilltophomestead7262]

SO happy to see your video pop up!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE little miss pudding doll! Such fun to see what she's up to! Am I the only silly American that gets such a kick out of the way you pronounce the word "year"?? Forgive me, but I LOVE it!!! Can't wait to see what you find next! New Year's Greetings from the 'thumb" of Washington State!

[@susikaufmann3734]

Happy New year 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@alcom3101]

Mes Voeux Les Meilleurs La Team🎬🔬🍀Alex France🙏🌌🍷🧀

[@bettydohms2002]

Enjoyed your finds today. My name is Betty - love the “B” you found 😊. Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤

[@ksully6551]

Hello ladies, good Lark 🥰 The Donald is Donald Duck the Disney character, you can see the button on his outfit. If you got a rock tumbler you could keep the broken bottles you like and turn pieces of them into 'seaglass'. Thanks for posting!

[@karenpaxton]

I thought it might have said MacDonald as there was a letter before the D

[@janetmonroe5031]

You could write an interesting story book on all your discoveries. Today you found a pair of hands, a coffin and a few words to start with.

[@SherryBates-p8q]

I’ve missed y’all so much. I have to admit I watched other mudlarks but I just couldn’t get my mudlark fix , ha haha Sherry from Tx.

[@shellyshipley598]

It will be interesting to see what Alex makes with her favorite shard of pottery

[@siouxempirecoyote8174]

I absolutely love the little forget me not copper bag seal charm it’s clipped onto my locket that hangs in my car. ❤ from South Dakota