I become consumed with jealousy every time I look at mudlarking instagram pages.
Imagine living near a river with so so many historical artifacts in it that you actually need to buy a licence to pick them up. absolutely wild.
Me, a Canadian who lives near a river: “Yeah my brothers and I used to spend hours poking around on the riverbank when we were younger, it was lots of fun! We found a few neat bottles and a small handful of pottery shards, but mostly we just found bathroom tiles. Hundreds of little square bathroom tiles, and they didn’t look very old. I guess someone in the area redid their bathroom a decade or two earlier and just dumped them all in the river.”
British people who live near rivers: “Today I’ve found a Georgian cufflink and a medieval pilgrim badge and a beautiful coloured glass perfume bottle stopper. Ooh and here’s another pipe bowl for my clay pipe collection, which I keep right next to my collection of 17th century glassware fragments.”
