Beachcombing at stunning Ravenscraig Castle! Jewelry making a beautiful Spongeware pottery bracelet!

Join us mudlarking under Ravenscraig Castle, discover what Spongeware is and how to make amazing jewellery from beach finds. New ETSY shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/scottishmud...

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Great news! We have just opened a brand new ETSY shop that will host jewellery made by Nicole, using a selection of beach finds from our videos. Each week, one or two, new items will be added to the shop - Nicole is also offering custom orders - so, if you see a specific piece in one of our mudarking videos and you think it would make a lovely piece of jewellery, message us and we'll make that happen for you!



Of course, Tiliabythesea will still be open for business. The difference is, our Scottish Mudlarking shop will ONLY host jewellery made from the things we find in the videos, so you can watch the pieces in your jewellery being discoverd, and, made - we hope you like this idea and it helps make these exclusive pieces of jewelery even more special for you!



INDEX

00:00 Welcome to Ravenscraig Castle
02:18 Lovely Scottish Day at the Beach!
03:34 Odd finds!! What are they!?
04:43 Walls to keep workers off the beach!
06:05 Bracelet project - collecting pottery/tiles
07:35 A lovely pictorial piece
10:07 Pontile marks - what are they!
11:50 Best finds for bracelet project
12:18 Nicole makes two bracelets

Today we begin at Ravenscraig castle: built in 1460, Ravenscraig is a heavily fortified castle built on the shores of the River Forth, overlooking a stunning bay. The castle was once home to the Earls of Rosslyn, the same family who own Rosslyn Chapel, which you may have heard of following Dan Brown's, The Da Vinci Code!


Its driech day, when we arrive at Pathhead Sands beach, but Nicole brightens the mood with some strange discoveries - we are still not sure what these odd stone/clay/pebble things are - we wonder if they came from the nearby Nairn's linoleum factory, demolished in the 1960s? Do you recognise them?


What are these strange walls built along the beach!? Craig takes a look at a series of high walls built along the beach - were they for seclusion/privacy? Where they places of safe harbour!? Lets find out what they really were!



We move on from Pathhead Beach in search of Scottish spongeware pottery to make two lovely bracelets - you can watch Nicole making these in the closing section of the video. Our search takes us to the river outlet we we find some amazing pieces under the water... Its not long before the rain chases us away - we regroup in Leven to take a quick lookat our best finds of the day!


We close with Nicole making two bracelets from our pottery finds today...



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Social Distancing: Although we would love to take you futher afield, we will have to wait until we are allowed to do so. At present, we are following guidance to only travel short distances, remain local, and adhere to social distancing recomendations. We are very fortunate to live in the Kingdom of Fife where places like Kirkcaldy, with its vast beach front, are on our doorstep and are seldom visited by any more than a handful of people at any time.



Credits:
Music

Yonder Hill and Dale by Aaron Kenny (youtube studio)

No3. Morning Folk Song, By Esther Abrami (youtube studio)

Images:
Richard Webb / Walls with a sinister purpose / CC BY-SA 2.0

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