Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza

So while mudlarking is a lot of fun, there are definitely times when you go home without finding anything (which sucks as petrol is 20 quid to get there!), but there are also times when you find stuff and then when you get home and check it on FB groups you find out it is absolutely worthless and sometimes a bit embarassing..

Carbon rod for a battery, tons of these about


Bathtub plug.. shush!


Relatively new handle for a pot/pan


Cutout from linoleum


Another thing from an old battery, tons of these too


Modern rebar spacer from a construction site


These are filled with helium? Anyways used for drugs. I never picked them up, had a feeling they were new, tooons of these around


Modern bottle stopper. You can still get these new..


Another battery component, at least I am not the only one to pick these up, they show up on the FB groups every time a newbie posts :P

I would never have guessed that was a bath plug. If I'd seen that in a museum of artefacts from Pompeii, I'd probably have believed it.

I should have kept it then! :P

@Winddancer where are you searching to find such an abundance of battery parts??

Thames foreshore, need some parts?

I love the way you are displaying these items. It makes all the bits of treasure look so mosaic. I especially like the coffee table and the pottery sherds!

Ha! I love this modern set of stuff in contrast to the older things you've found. Amazing all the random objects that wind up in rivers...

Not mudlarking, but a gorgeous (though frigging freezing!) day in Durham <3

No snow! Nice! Lovely photos, Windy!

Thanks! <3 And yep, no snow, thank god. That melted quite quickly. However you can see some of the destruction storm Arwen caused, all those trees in the river :( And sooo much water, it was soo loud!

I missed these last three photos I love them honestly the architecture of the UK always makes me happy. No idea why those houses would be absolutely rotten to live in in Canada but the texture and the layering and the shapes are just fantastic and I quite like the lighting on the castle.

The lighting was indeed goegeous that day :D But one thing I did notice was the NOISE, holy mother of that river ROARED. Granted it was a few days after the storms, but geez, cant imagine living right up against that, I would never sleep! :P

Mmmm it takes about 1 or 2 weeks tops and you wouldn't ever hear it again in your house. That's about how long it takes for airplanes to stop affecting you sleeping at night when you live under the flight path for the run way and can almost spit at the 747s coming into land. Only time a plane would wake me up or get my attention was when it sounded WRONG or was having engine troubles (twice in 11 years and one of those was a B52 bomber which sounds NOTHING like a commercial jet coming in for a landing before the Winnipeg Airshow) I'd guess the river would be a lot more soothing than sporadic plane noises.

There are soothing sounds and then there are roars where you have to yell to be heard. I am sure you would have been bothered if your head was IN the engine, cause that was about how loud it was

Hahaha true enough, but it probably isn't that loud all the time or that will be the one side of those houses that's a bit better insulated/thicker to block out some of that roar. The last thing seems like a fairly British solution to it lol

Well I would think it would be after every storm and that is one thing we have plenty of here :P They would have to have some kind of insulation of they would never be able to talk in their own front rooms lol, like living next to a waterfall.