A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season

Over the course of one calendar year (2022) I recorded all the objects I brought home with me from my mudlarking and foraging trips. It was a fascinating exercise in quantity and diversity and shows how finds from different parts of the foreshore differ. I’ve dated and identified them where I can, but I make mistakes. I’m always learning, the research is on-going, and dates and theories will probably change, so you see before you a never-ending project . For the purposes of this website: Medieval is 1066 – 1500 and post medieval is 1500 – 1800. 

I returned many of the objects to where I found them and kept relatively little. The stories of some of them can be found my book: A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season (Bloomsbury, 2024).

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