Mudlarking Lost Treasures - Odd Things our Ancestors put between their Lips, Poison & Quack Cures!

Whoever could have last had that in their mouth?! Were they envy of their friends? Whose pocket did it fall out of?! Lost treasures to me but old rubbish to the people who discarded them over a century ago. Old bottles settle in the mud and become taken over by barnacles. The last person who touched them has disappeared into the mists of time. But when I find personal objects I cant help wondering who last touched them or who held them. Who took a spoonful of Dr Grace's pectoral or cough mixture to cure their cold? Did it work?! I doubt it somehow... And whoever treated themselves to a resplendent clay tobacco pipe in the shape of a cockerel?! Just what was the poison that was contained in the blue cobalt bottle which washed up at my feet? All these questions. It's food for the imagination. Whoever threw these objects away could never have thought that one day we would be searching around and finding delight in their rubbish.

This video was filmed in the River Medway which is one of my favourite places. The stunning aerial videography showing the 19th century forts Hoo and Darnet is by Geoff Watkins, a CAA approved drone operator. www.aerialimagingse.co.uk

The music is the following:-

Bonnie & Clyde
   • Roy Williams - Bonnie and Clyde  

Never Going Back by Benjamin Carey
   • Never Going Back  

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Nicola White
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