Mudlarks Scour the Thames to Uncover 2,000 Years of Secrets

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From ribald tokens from London’s Roman past to hints of the Mayflower’s fate, mudlarks discover the story of a constantly changing London — but only at low tide.


Mudlarks Scour the Thames to Uncover 2,000 Years of Secrets

 

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From ribald tokens from London’s Roman past to hints of the Mayflower’s fate, mudlarks discover the story of a constantly changing London — but only at low tide.


Mudlarks Scour the Thames to Uncover 2,000 Years of Secrets

Secrets and cholera brehs...

 

[88m3]

Secrets and cholera brehs...

the river speaks

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Britain legally obligates anyone who unearths “treasure” — defined as single finds of gold and silver over 300 years old, and hoards of coins and prehistoric metalwork — to inform the government.

Britain takes this law seriously, as one amateur treasure hunter learned in November. He was given a decade-long jail sentence after failing, along with another man, to report the discovery of a Viking hoard they dug up in western England