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When I lived in London we (coworker and I) went out and did this a couple of times, wandering the banks of the Thames at low tide and searching for whatever buried treasure the river saw fit to cough up. Nothing too interesting, a lot of china, broken pipe stems, an ancient fossil tooth (mammal, pre-ice age but not dinosaur), our finds didn't amount to much but we ran into others with better luck - one, a metal detectorist, talking to him, a bag full of shrapnel from the war, told us his best find was a 16th century widow's ring, gold, with a coffin shaped diamond...
We weren't deluded, go to the British Museum or Museum of London and you'll find that a lot of their most amazing treasures were found in the Thames, some examples below:
- https://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/12/22/lost-and-found-toys-tears-and-the-thames/
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1362722&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=828310&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=65102&partId=1
- http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=831341&partId=1
There's even a website devoted solely to finds on the river: http://www.thamesmuseum.org/
So to find a whole sub-niche of youtube videos that take you on the experience, well, it was inspiring...
Some articles to get you started:
And finally, here are a couple of my favorite channels:
Of course, this is a rabbit hole without end, watch the videos, there are finds of gold coins, votive offerings, abundant jewelry and pipes from all ages...
Inspiring.
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A rare example of where real estate proved a good investment. Kinda paid for itself:
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The find of a lifetime for a few lucky fishermen...
Link: http://www.seeker.com/whale-vomit-haul-to-net-millions-for-fishermen-2085342357.html
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Found, at Value Village, a small trove of books to read. Penguin editions, possibly a classics major or some such cleaning up his shelf.
Titles include: Orkneyinga Saga, The Mabinogion, NJal's Saga, The History of Alexander, Two Years Before the Mast, and the Communist Manifesto.
...From which you should gather a fair idea of my reading tastes. Well prepared for a long winter without reliable internet (or even necessary, as it wastes more time that it answers questions, for sure, for sure...). Not that I needed more books, I've easily a hundred to read, but I couldn't leave these, with luck by spring I'll have read them all...
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A find day of thrifting...I sold the phone for $80.00, reinvested the profits back into...
The first few finds, a copy of "The Land of 12-Food Davis" by J.G. MacGregor, A History of the Peace River Country. Interesting. I could use some light reading...
an old Pyrex jar. Now to fill it with brains or some such...
Perfect, for a twonie, a chance to make my anatomical correction of Jar-Jar Binks...and when done, to leave it on someone's lawn. Now to figure who's lawn to leave it on, who would appreciate it and not call the police...
And finally these two:
crescent glasses, antique, gold rims, my prescription...
And this:
The lining says it all, vintage "Pioneer" leather coat made in Albuquerque New Mexico...
Less of a coat than a career choice, this coat screams "I LIKE TO PARTY", I'm gonna change my name to "Boone" and travel the old west singing songs about raccoons and outlaws...