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Dig Regardless: Our Miss Sivewright
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015. An Oxfordshire lace maker at work at her pillow. Three or four years ago I came into possession of a box of lace making equipment. It belonged to a friend of ours whose pastime it was when she was young. This equipment was probably passed down by her mother because even without prior experience of handling bobbins I could see that most of them were very old. To be worked only for Mrs (? The Rise - Oxford'. Two weeks ago I recommenced. And began with a listing of the item under ...
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Dig Regardless: Knights of The Holy Sepulchre — My Arse!
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Friday, 12 October 2012. Knights of The Holy Sepulchre — My Arse! Little cross-crosslets everywhere. Ebay's heaving with them, and so are crafty dealers trays. Collectors cosset each and every of the many, many cross-crosslets they've undoubtedly got and in cotton wool, lest they break. Knights of the Holy Sepulchre' pilgrim badges is what they are . . . Nothing more holy than Victorian mirror frames! Funny how no one ever shows us the reverse of these things, isn't it? My mirror hangs in Zena's Bedroom ...
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Dig Regardless: Thames Mudlarking — One of the Most Beautiful Finds I Ever Made...
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Sunday, 5 July 2015. Thames Mudlarking — One of the Most Beautiful Finds I Ever Made. But when I discovered it, there was no Eureka moment. It had no detail at all, just a covering of a strange kind of slimy muck and therefore it did not go in the leather finds pouch hung safely round my neck where anything good gets to live. I pocketed it. In the crap pouch along with pot shards and encrusted iron requiring further investigation it went! It is a knife terminal, about the size of your thumbnail, and date...
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Dig Regardless: Iron Age
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Hover over pictures for information. The centre bar of a three-link bridle bit from Norfolk. 96.8mm. A small reign ring or miniature terret from Chelmsford. 26.8mm. A triskele fob or harness mount from South Yorkshire. 40mm. The lower baluster-shaped terminal of a linchpin from Chelmsford. 25.4mm. Strap slide with a broken-backed 'S' curve. Imported Gallic rosette brooch from Lincolnshire. 53.4mm. Imported Gallic rosette brooch from Chelmsford. 41mm. La Tene III bow brooch from Chelmsford. 73mm. Does any...
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Dig Regardless: Thames Mudlarking — A Georgian Fob Story (Pt2)
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Sunday, 28 June 2015. Thames Mudlarking — A Georgian Fob Story (Pt2). There's times when a discovery is so unusual and interesting that it demands that you sit down straight down on the ground, and stop. I was arrested and taken into custody. It was such. Handsome thing to have found that I couldn't quite believe I had. It didn't seem possible that such a delicacy could have survived two centuries in a puddle of mud without breaking apart into hundreds of tiny pieces and utterly destroyed. Traceable dire...
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Dig Regardless: Thames Mudlarking — A Georgian Fob Story (Pt1)
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Thursday, 25 June 2015. Thames Mudlarking — A Georgian Fob Story (Pt1). Spring high at Custom House. The discovery I made one sunny afternoon in May falls somewhere between those two polar extremes. Therefore it resides carefully stowed in my collection cabinet. Once in a while I get it out and look at it. I can't ever remember showing it to anyone. A chalk-rubble barge bed being laid at UDC Wharf, Chiswick on Easter Sunday, 1929. Erosion begins when water having breached the wooden revetment begins its ...
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Dig Regardless: July 2015
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015. An Oxfordshire lace maker at work at her pillow. Three or four years ago I came into possession of a box of lace making equipment. It belonged to a friend of ours whose pastime it was when she was young. This equipment was probably passed down by her mother because even without prior experience of handling bobbins I could see that most of them were very old. To be worked only for Mrs (? The Rise - Oxford'. Two weeks ago I recommenced. And began with a listing of the item under ...
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Dig Regardless: Legless — Is the Lexden Chieftain's Boar in Safe Hands?
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Thursday, 18 October 2012. Legless — Is the Lexden Chieftain's Boar in Safe Hands? Here's a picture of the boar figurine found in the Lexden Chieftain's burial near Colchester. This picture appears in Miranda Green's, 'Animals in Celtic Life and Myth,' 1992, and you can see clearly that the animal has a complete left hind leg and right foreleg. However, in a more modern picture of the piece just as it is displayed right now in Colchester Museum, things do seem to be somewhat different. To be honest I hav...
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Dig Regardless: Pick O' The Day — The Found Piece
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Thursday, 18 June 2015. Pick O' The Day — The Found Piece. Very nearly a day having passed by I really don't think it'll be where I'd plonked it back down but it is. I still don't trust it, though. However, having biked into town (in what seemed a moment), I wasn't going away empty handed so I pay the tenner asked and the kind old lady behind the counter swaddles it in bubble wrap for me. It's huge. And it's bloody heavy too! Blimey. What a find! The blood's up now. Is it a Halloween pumpkin? Well, neith...
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Dig Regardless: Stone Age
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Hover over pictures for information. A hand axe from the Ravensbourne at Elm Park, Essex. Drawing by Hazel Martingell, photos by Caroline McDonald, ex Finds. Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Essex. A simple uniface hand axe from the Thames at Battersea. The tranchet adze from Chelmsford, Essex. Drawing by Hazel Martingell, photos by Caroline McDonald, ex Finds. Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Essex. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Roman Oil Flask Suspension Swivel.
