You'll never guess what this is! Or Will You? What we Found in 2 Days Mudlarking on the River Thames

[@suewilson1801]

Love the bird and poem.

[@sarahskondin3844]

The box I think is a hand warmer.

[@PixieStirling]

Why am i nearly in tears, watching the interaction with young Roddie, his eyes are shining and cheeks rosy being outside and not stuck inside glued to a screen. ❤❤❤

[@TheShonarob]

Thank you so much for you all showing such kindness to Roddie. He is absolutely beaming and is even more eager to either become an archaeologist... or a prime minister....! it will forever be a special memory for him so thank you x

[@KarlGillcrist]

Whichever road he takes in life knowing history is important for if he ever was to become prime minister knowing the mistakes made in the past would keep him from remaking them thus making him more successful....keep doing what your doing to encourage him ....he seems to be a fine young man....Karl from eastern Canada 👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@deborahbryant7530]

That Roddie sure is a little cutie pie 🥰 !!! You made his day Nicola !!! Nice finds by everyone. Love the two little rings you found. Did you ever find out what the big clear orb in the water was & the bubble/dome shape was ? They were really cool !!! I just love watching you & your friends digging around looking for treasures & seeing what yall find. Wonderful video Nicola !!! Love to you from the USA !!! 🙂💖

[@bradpaul8576]

Love Oscar’s playful competitiveness! If I was mudlarking I’d be very much like him!

[@christymickelson6965]

Happy New Year! I’m glad that 2024 is over as I lost both my mom and dad. And my husband was battling cancer. He is now in remission. But Nicole your videos throughout the year. Made the time go smoother for me and help me through some of these tough times. I truly enjoy watching and discovering through your lens. May this new year we all be blessed with good health, joy and happiness. Keep on finding the treasures and telling there history. Much Love, from Buckeye, AZ

[@hazel3564]

What a darling little boy! Happy New Year to everyone!

[@lauralake7430]

Its very nice that you stopped and spoke with Roddy. He had very nice manners!😊

[@TheShonarob]

Arh I saw this. Thank you 😊. He adores Nicola and how amazing that, with us living in Devon, we saw her! We came to London to look at the Thames because he loves watching her and his dream is to Mudlark. A very special moment for him

[@andreacrashe9894]

*Rodie it was so lovely to meet you, as you are a super fan of Nicola's mudlarking, and I hope you have an awesome year at school with all your friends.🙂 Nicola, it is so great to see you back & all the best for you & your family in 2025 🙂nz*

[@annfrye5716]

Little bird ceramic would make a beautiful necklace

[@bbert-fauxlopher]

I need a huge hug today!

[@mynameis9057]

Don't you just want to gobble Roddie up and hug him to bits?! He's just so cute!

[@bbert-fauxlopher]

The o my thought I have is an early discography song Hey Hey Hey What You Got To Say😀

[@johicks8168]

Sending one your way❤

[@lovelyskull3483]

Here’s a hug for you from Canada. 💕

[@mynameis9057]

Roddy is absolutely adorable! He's a great little mudlark in the making 😊 and has a very keen eye. I love the history of the items and thanks for diving deeper into the background of them. Happy 😁 2025 to all 🎉 Wow 😳 that ring turned out amazing!👍 Well done Oscar!

[@miriamgreen3973]

Ditto🎉

[@janisfallstich1567]

Leonard Cohen such a masterful poet. Love that darling little bird. Hope your 2025 is perfect. All the best from Michigan ❤

[@juliekeys1880]

Great to see you Nicola. Happy new year 👍

[@babygracie68]

Precious boy ! ❤

[@Nicole-pg5lk]

Hi Nicola, Happy New Year to you as well ❤. Is the little box an ashtray? Ah it is a snuffbox. Enjoyed your video, and sweet young Roddy. I defenitely could use a virtual hug as my health isn't to good lately. Sending the same hug to everyone who needs it too❤. Love, xx Nicole.

[@Susie_Floozie]

It looks like a matchbox, a rather waterproof one. I was clueless until I saw the odd ornamentation on one side--I realized it was not ornamentation but an abrasive surface for the striking of matches. Is that it? Aha! So I was deceived by its appearance. Which explains why I stopped getting married.

[@janetschmitt6760]

Same thoughts on the item, but I know the Brits call them vester cases.

[@l.a.glover9172]

@@janetschmitt6760 "vesta"

[@Lucius1958]

Exactly: I saw the serrated strip, and immediately thought 'match safe'.

[@dr_steve]

Wishing you and your family a very happy New Year, Nicola! Lovely to see you back online again and hope you enjoyed your holidays spent with family and friends. Some lovely finds during these outings and really enjoyed getting to meet Oscar. He's a hoot! Thanks for taking us along for the back stories, too.

[@favouritemoon4133]

Lovely video, Nicola. I hope Roddy enjoyed meeting you and your friends/fellow mudlarkers. Great finds, everyone!

[@goodpeople5676]

Lovely finds and really enjoyed. Enjoy your adventures With love from SAM Guwahati, Assam, India 🇮🇳 ♥️

[@ShirleyWhite-rc6je]

Thank you for sharing your video with us all ❤️. That shard of the 🐦🕊️ bird 🐔🕊️ keep on the mudlocking. Your friend Shirley from new Bern, north Carolina USA.❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😅😊 😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@wifeofchief]

I love watching your videos!!! It is so wonderful to see the treasures you pull out of the mud! Pleas let Roddy (hope I spelled his name correctly) know that he was seen in Hawaii! Until I found your channel, I had no idea people did mudlarking on the Thames! Just so cool!

[@TheShonarob]

Roddie's mummy here! I will let him know! That will blow his mind!!

[@JulieN-w3s]

Nicola, Thank you for bringing me up from the doldrums today. You always have a way of doing that no matter what treasures you share in your videos. I adore the little bird ceramic piece and the poem you recited. Thank you for always making me feel as if you were talking just to me when you open and close your videos - Peace.

[@tuto108]

Thank you, Nicola for your very lovely program. Always fascinating, enjoyable and uplifting.

[@deidrecruickshank7975]

Hi Nicola, gosh meeting Roddy was such a blessing. It bought back memories of my little brother, also called Roddy, who died 2 years ago on Dec 22nd. He like me loved watching your channel and many others, and we both loved going to thrift shops too. But mudlarking was the thing that we'd watch together, when he visited, as he didn't have youtube. Thanks for reminding me of our love of this and how we found everything so interesting. ❤🎉

[@RichardMonmouth]

Jeez bn waiting for this all year Nicola !! Yay x

[@lorrainekennedy2097]

Such a great video Nicola, so interesting!

[@jojosmumdorothy2829]

Thank You Nicola is like a virtual hug I'm sending hugs out too xx

[@marthaharris6064]

Lovely Mudlark. You are such a joy to listen to❤Thank you😊

[@sadielevens1144]

❤❤❤❤❤ always a joy to go along with you. Thank you.

[@michelehood8837]

Love all of the finds, but especially the snuff box!

[@Allegory_of_Wolves]

A Happy New Year to you, Nicola, and everyone reading this! Lots of good luck for 2025! 🍀💖 As always, it was lots of fun seeing what you found. The idea to make a pendant out of the little shard with the bird on it, sounds perfect!

[@kimbateman226]

Nice to see you back, love the rings, looked a great day with Oscar and co., look forward to next video

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Great to see a fan sharing your finds and fun on the foreshore!!!

[@lorassorkin]

Thank you for engaging so enthusiastically with all the kids you meet! That's how I got interested in archaeology many many decades ago!

[@sandybuchart6017]

Happy New Year !! Great video.❤

[@pochosousa4653]

Hermosa búsqueda y hallazgos de principio de año . Feliz año y mucha salud para todos los tuyos y muy buenas búsquedas .te saluda cordialmente como siempre un argentino desde España

[@fishinwidow35]

Love the snuff box!

[@BMW7series251]

Happy New Year Nicola. Best regards, John.

[@markreetz1001]

Always a pleasure seeing the "Pipe Whisperer" at work! Very impressed with many of your finds. The glass items were amazing with the obligatory hold it to the sky and the sunshine! I liked the bird on the ceramic and the poem. I've always admired anyone who could recite a poem that exactly fit the situation. The black jumper (we Americans call it a sweater🤠) was quite stunning, Really set off your hair. Your walks on the foreshore and with your friends--young and old, are always a joy!! Thank you and Happy New Year!

[@BradArmstrong-f1v]

Great kid

[@cynthiahogue7724]

Another great video! You have such a good eye for spotting things that I’m sure I wouldn’t see. Thanks for sharing!

[@marionbowler5440]

Well done Nicola 👏 ❤🍁😎

[@Debbie4729]

As a rockhound,I must confess that I go bananas when I see certain rocks near the find you were going after!I wish I could go with you,and pick up those stones!

[@lovelyskull3483]

Snuff box? I actually guessed correctly. Which is rare for me. Such a wonderful video. Roddy is such a fine boy. Thank you Nicola.

[@tessamacdonald-s7p]

Happy new year and happy larking .I once knew a dear lady who took snuff ,and drank brandy !she lived to 101 1/2 not bad .I have loved Leonard Cohen for many years too.

[@catsmith7234]

The bird shard is the favorite, next the snuff box? Very, very neat. Neat how it is in good working order.

[@Leslie-wb8cb]

What a great video! Thank you for sharing with us! My favorite find of yours is the bird ceramic bit. That's so pretty! And so was the quote, thank you! Happy new year!

[@audeancibure1528]

Happy New Year Nicola, wishing you lots of Joy, happiness and fantastic Finds... thank you for your great posts. Hello from Paris France.

[@123uschie]

Thank you again Nicola.

[@Adele.N]

Later in the day in London you sure can hear the planes over head often. Love the gold Victorian belt ring! Thanks for another interesting video.🩷

[@daver8521]

Very interesting video, Nicola! Pandora watched part of it with me. Roddie looks like he is a very sweet kid! 2025 has been good to me so far. My back is much better. Perhaps I am finally recovering from my fall. Hope it has been good for you, too. Wishing you all the best.

[@stucook8622]

It looks like a snuff box and thanks you for the video!🌻

[@KarlGillcrist]

We can always count on Nicola to show her old friends and new ones a lovely time on the foreshore ...may 2925 bring many more friends and great outings to you Nicola..Karl from eastern Canada

[@arthurjamesaltmann729]

All the best in 2025 Nicola, from the colonies (Canada)! Always appreciate your upbeat positive mindset. Always look forward to new posts!! TTFN...

[@EasyThereBigFella]

Great to see you again, Nicola!! Happy New Year!

[@luckyskittles8976]

Match box? Happy New Year!!! Well done, maybe the little stopper with the bird could be a cookie press, some shortbread with a little bird on top♥

[@superbellabeau]

I thought the box would be a snuff box. What a great find. It was great to see the budding mudlarker Roddy and your other muddy friends. Great finds as always Nicola! Happy week from Sally in Oz ❤😊

[@tonygiraldes7848]

Just the greatest 🙂❤️

[@elizabethespada6319]

Hello Nicola, I love to watch you find such wonderful items ,when you found the bird on the piece of pottery it was amazing you see I lost my beautiful parrot Wilson yesterday ,he was my best friend and my whole life. He was 25 years old, I rescued him 7 years ago and he has been with me everyday and watch your videos with me. I am broken hearted and in a lot of pain, missing him so much. Then I saw an E on the brick right after that and I lost it. I think it was a sign from him that he is ok. My God help me get through this, my year has started off very bad. Thank you for what you do. It means a lot to me😢

[@DavidHuber63]

I love Sunday :) and the longer one looks, the more one see's :)

[@ChristopherCirillo]

Love it! Oscar seems like a fun chap to go for an explore with along the Thames. He’s a hoot. Congrats to all of you on some cool little finds to begin the new year. I can’t wait to see where you’ll take us next time ❤

[@MyScatteredBrain-e5u]

Multiple bird finds! I love the song you quoted. Thank you for your videos.

[@PixieStirling]

Nicola you have eyes like a hawk, great glass finds and all the jewels 😅.❤❤

[@BarryMason-qg9ss]

Nails look good xx❤❤❤❤❤

[@patty4091]

Very nice, with your young fan. Maybe a future mudlarker! Nice finds, fun day!

[@susancousins8766]

Hello 👋🏼 Nicola, the black bird 🐦‍⬛ in the beginning had me in awe 🫢. I couldn’t believe how it lifted the rock with its beck. I never saw that before! I am so satisfied when I see you finding history at the Thames Foreshore. I wish I had the opportunity to visit with you. Money is always the problem so it’s not possible. I need to find somewhere here old enough to find relics and history. Thanks for your videos this year will definitely be interesting. Have a fantastic week ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜

[@jessicamarielovato3600]

Nicola, You're back!!! I'm so happy to watch something knew. You've been dearly missed. I hope you had a marvelous time while you were away!!! You had many wonderful finds today, my favorite was your first ring and I think it had a green paste stone. Do you heat them up and make them round again? That is a good idea to make a stamp from a bottle stopper, hope it works out for you. Take care and stay safe.

[@karena.williams4945]

Nicola, I love watching your channel. i enjoy watching your mudlarking adventures, but most of all, I love your cheery and upbeat attitude. You are like a shining beacon in a sometimes dismal world. I let your episodes play, even if I've already seen

[@pigoff123]

I would take a different brick home every day and make a brick path out of them.

[@patty4091]

I was thinking the same thing. It would be hard to restrain myself to just one a day!

[@BrianForbes-uw6hx]

Some great finds for the start of 2025. Wishing you all the best for the New Year Nicola. 👍❤️

[@bonnerdebbie]

A snuff box? Yay! The belt ring is beautiful. Thanks Nicola, Happy New Year.

[@vivianeromao]

Nicola, I hope you have a fantastic New Year. I wish all your dreams come true. Hugs from Brazil to you.

[@kartapuce3814]

That pretty birdy (12.33) was waiting for you without a doubt. Thank you for this very pleasant video ..

[@FindsByPirjo]

Great lark with some of the master mudlarker men Nicola! Wishing you much love and luck for the 2025 and hope to see you in London again!

[@dodgebob1]

At 4:22 when she finds a button you can see a coin standing up between two rocks just to the left of her hand. Looks like a coin to me.

[@lechatel]

Yep. I see it too!

[@leslierumph7887]

It is always lovely catching up with you and wishing you all a happy new year

[@bethrios2782]

Happy New Year to you too. I really love watching you and wish I could be there with you

[@michellecook2338]

Indeed a great poem to start the new year . Happy New year🎉🎉

[@John-s3t6q]

Well Happy New Year to you . Nicola. And Oscar.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

12:41 THAT would make the perfect pendant! ❤

[@bethsmith3421]

Thank you for sharing these two lovely mudlarking adventures. Happy New Year! I have hopes of a happy year but am not sure there is much hope considering what's happening on the 20th of this month. You've found some very nice small treasures. The little bird on the piece of pottery is so tiny, delicate and beautiful. It would make a really pretty necklace.

[@deloradeabel8487]

Looks like you have some competition there with those mudlarking crows,I hear they like shiny things!Fun lark!

[@skyedog24]

Looks like the birds do some mud lurking as well😂

[@lilwolfbrandt]

Hi Nicola, a lovely and interesting video as always. The Outdoor girl lipstick made me smile. I remember buying that brand in the beginning of the 1960th and at the time I didn’t understand was outdoor girl ment but it sounded cool I thought. I hadn’t yet started to learn the english language in school. Your find brought back some nice memories.Thanks and I wish you a happy new year from Sweden with love. ❤️

[@mauileaB88]

A wonderful video eagerly waited for 🎉 Brilliant finds! Best wishes for your new year! Aloha🌈🌺

[@juliegale3863]

Yes, could see it was a box when you picked it up and guessed when you opened it that it was a snuff box. Thank goodness you didn’t put it back. I have always loved looking at snuff boxes in museums. Never seen one as plain as that.

[@wiebeworks4950]

Watching this video, I realized how much I would enjoy doing what you do. Not sure there would be anything to find by the rivers near here, but certainly possible. I will take a look in the spring. But it got me thinking about where else I might do some scrounging around for cool finds of lost items.

[@cmarq817]

Loved the snuff box but also the 1940s OUTDOOR GIRL lipstick ❤

[@laniejewell7512]

happy new year from southern oregon, USA.. Love my Mudlarking calendar 🙂

[@margidaly6874]

Blessings for a very Happy New Year. Love seeing what you find. Always interesting history. Thanks for taking us along with you. 😊

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

Lovely finds, Nicola! The snuffbox is very interesting!❤

[@matthewspencer5086]

The second "bullet" is a small, slightly bottlenecked centrefire cartridge. There was something called the .230" Morris which was used in "rook rifles" of which your crows would not approve.

[@kathleenmonahan1315]

That was very nice Oscar gifted the coin to the you g man.

[@carolinewithers1647]

I really enjoyed your poem. I'm going to have to look that up because I'd like a copy. It really struck a chord today.

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

There are some fascinating pebbles there too. Orangey yellow that look very interesting to the rockhounder in me!

[@kentuckylady2990]

Love the music of the waves

[@miriamgreen3973]

18:20 "a stamp".... exactly what I said when I saw it 👏🖌🎨

[@juliafokina8902]

Thanks! Cool finds and adventure!

[@_TheOneRing_]

Beautiful video Nicola 💐