Nicola, your videos are the highlight of my day. I am disabled and not able to mudlark myself but if I could, I would be doing just that. You are fabulous at presenting the history behind your finds and educating the world about it. Thank you for sharing your wonderful videos and knowledge.

The mystery "bullet" is a primer from an artillery shell. Love the watches, it looks like the glass is still in the one that was on the right in the video, if so the dial may be intact on it as well. Great finds!

I find myself echoing DR’s words. At 70 years old and disabled coming online and finding another of your mudlarking adventures is like receiving a gift. The respect you show to those who previously owned these items and the environment is also commendable. Best wishes- (my friends call me db)

I watch your videos over and over again, you have such a charming and delightful enthusiasm about everything you find!! I love the time you take to find out what things are and where they are in history. You have the same desire that I have to be able to humanize your finds by placing them in the hands of their previous owners and understanding how they used them. That is my favourite part of history: how objects were made, who made them, what they used them for, who might have owned them, etc. Please continue to make your lovely videos, I certainly appreciate all the time you take to make them, research the items and share that information with us. You are a moment of joyful calm in a crazy world and for that I thank you...and again I do love your pipe extractions. Cheers.

Nice finds! Although Rolex had the contract to provide military watches, the watches themselves contained a Cortebertt’s caliber 526 movement and not an actual Rolex movement. You have both the A and B types. The B versions had white faces and no rings for a chain. They were made to be inserted in wooden boxes or holders in vehicles or boats. The A versions were black faced and were regular pocket watches.

These folding rulers were used a lot with sea charts for navigating. PS: great video.

Your house must be like Aladdins Cave full of treasures. I love when you research your finds and relate to us the social history! Why would so many military watches end up in Thames! Maybe they were thrown in on D day X

Thank you so much Nicola, once again you’ve found fantastic items to share with us! Love the pipe bowls, looking forward to your next hunt on the Thames!!

I wish I was able to go mudlarking with you...as it is, I will continue to enjoy mudlarking vicariously through you😄

Mudlarking the River Thames: added to the bucket list. Your videos are so intriguing! To a soon to be history major, I quite love your videos! Thanks for sharing your finds!

Awesome soothing upload Nicola, Thanks for sharing,. You constantly bring me Joy with your Zest. Barrie.

What fun you are. I love your excitement. Thank you. I learn so much from you.

Oh, Nicola....this is a deliciously fine video...including the musical gallery and exit. Thank you so much for bringing me along!

Wonderful vid!! Ahh the music !! Between that and your honest excitement at the watches face and the sea creature pipe this video made me smile and giggle a bit ! Loved it !!!

Nicola , In your videos , you do something that I personally love to see , that not many detectorists or mudlarkers do !! I think that the most important part of A video is the wrap-up ! I want to see your finds cleaned as much as possible without damaging them , and then displayed in good sunlight or a bright lamp , up Close ! You do an Excellent Job at that and I Commend You ! Keep up the wonderful work , I don't miss any of your videos , Thank You !! Dirt Hawk !!

Thank you so much. I watch your escapades with a smile from start to finish. Please do continue.

Great finds again Nicola your enthusiasm is heart warming and your love of history is great I always watch your videos late in the evening they are so relaxing,keep em coming

5:03 So much for containing your exitement :) Awesome channel, Nicola!

Many thanks for the wonderful videos. Love all the great shots of wildlife as well as the finds! You are remarkable!

Wonderful outing great treasures....thanks for taking us along.

Some beautiful discoveries along the Thames River

The more of these i watch the more I am convinced that the river bed of the Thames is nothing but clay pipes. XD

What a beautiful view from your window. Such a lovely setting. Lucky you!

Just love your enthusiasm and your interest in history!! Didn’t want your adventure to end!! Thank you

Beautiful choice of music at the end Nicola. I did enjoy your Mud Larking, especially the pocket watch.

The pipe bowl with the sea creature is a dolphin. We have them in Savannah Georgia as downspouts on the rain gutters on the river street. They are to be good luck. The large hook looks like a shutter hook to close shutters on the outside of the windows. Again, here on the coast we call them "hurricane shutters". Maybe you can look up the serial numbers on the watches and find the person whom they were assigned to. That would be fun. As always, your videos are such a joy. Thank you.

Brilliant pocket watches. Very nice collection of history. Really enjoyed watching and learning a bit about each discovery. Thanks for sharing. Always a pleasure.

Lovely prelude !!! Thank you

My new favorite channel, love the pipes, think I will start collecting old clay pipes. I am from London originally , but have lived in Ontario Canada, most of my life. I am disabled so no mudlarking for me. Your channel gives me much pleasure so thank you Plus we don't have the River Thames lol Thanks so much for the way you present you videos, well done

The "fish" on the pipe bowl serves no discernible porpoise.

I love your mudlarking! I always love a good find! Your bits and bobbles are so interesting.

I really enjoy your videos and wish I could mudlark with you. Thank you for taking time to share your adventures with us

Well done Nicola, another enjoyable river adventure. The mystery cartridge case item as stated could be a fuse or my guess an artillery shell igniter, either way I would safely dispose of this find, as it appears to be un fired.

cute little ink pot!! Oh I love this videos Nicola!!!

Fascinating finds. Lovely music at the end. Thanks Nicola ❤️

Another very well done production !!! Thanks again 🌞

Wow what a stunning pocket watch. My new favorite relic find channel, I've been binge watching for a couple weeks now. Just love your round ups, and the history you share from your research.

I love watching your videos, it makes me feel like I'm stomping through the mud with you. I loved the pocket watch. I bet you could take it to a jeweler and have new inner workings, hands and a glass cover put in. I know these treasures have a certain charm just the way they were found, but I love the idea of upcycling items and giving them a second life.

Very nice variety of finds. Love the bottle stopper. Congrats on the watch & interesting pipe bowls & the one with the fish how cool is that. Very nice ink pot. Very nice video.

Thank you for your wonderfully open way of interfacing with history and creating a beautiful experience with music in your videos. It so thoughtful and lovely. I have recently gotten my permit to mudlark on the foreshore and as a historian, the serendipity and openness of delighting in what the water brings a person is a big attractant. I appreciate your style and wish you very well.

The one brass bit looks like the end of a musket ram rod

Love your videos Nicola

☔☁🐟 What beautiful finds...I get so excited anticipating what will be on the pipes. These are absolutely amazing!!

I loved the tick-tock when you found the military pocket watch. Brilliant!

Hi Nicola I loved the video. The ruler you found is a carpenters ruler also known as a coach ruler as it was the same length as a horse drawn carriage. The lead United Kingdom coat of arms could have been a paper weight with a military origin keep up the good work GL&HH (good luck and happy hunting) Simon

So much fun!

Your channel is entertaining thanks, and l love it when someone with knowledge answers what a thing is.

fantastic video as always! Thanks for posting Nicola

I would suggest the fish design on the pipe bowl is a depiction of a Sturgeon which once graced the river Thames.

That bullet you found was unfired and that "ring" around the base was the neck from the casing, which had broken away. That second item looked like a fuze, or part of a fuze, from a shell. It had a broad arrow on it, so definitely ordnance of some sort. It was tapered and I saw what looked like flash holes on top so I think it was a timed fuze of the old kind, before the Vickers mechanical clock work fuze, maybe for a smaller base fuzed shell like 57mm. I too, like glass bottle stoppers! And the penny ink was a good find! Nice watch too!

Another wonderful video! Love the music at the end and how you showcase each find.

Some nice old fashion autumn relaxation.. Nice finds.👌😊👍

A reasonable guess at what that tube might be. The tube could be a oil tube from the butt of a rifle or musket. Small brass tubes with a lid that could be unscrewed. Inside, the lid would be attached to an oiler for placing drops of oil around the rifle's various parts. It would fit with the .303" rounds being found in a a similar location. I have a .303 SMLE with one still fitted, yours would be from an earlier rifle.

Hello, Nicola! I was looking at the lead plaque with a royal coat of arms emblazoned on it. The lozenge shape is used in heraldry for female members of the Royal Family e.g. princesses instead of the conventional shield that is normally used for boys/men and queens regnant or consort. Now for the ''If wishes were fishes'' bit... As the details on the lead object featuring lozenge are worn with time (and the watery location where it has been all these years), it is difficult to find out which princess/duchess etc. the arms belonged to or what the purpose of this object originally was. If the details were mint, the clues would have been contained within each (or fewer) of the descending three squares from a white-striped heraldic device, known as a label, situated across the top half of the lozenge; also, if there was a normal shaped shield with the coat of arms of Saxony in the centre overall, the arms would have been dated to pre-1917, when King George V changed the dynastic name of the British Royal Family from the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more British name of Windsor - to cool the anger of anti-German feeling in Britain during the First World War. There were plenty of princesses belonging to the British Royal Family, particularly during the reign of Queen Victoria, many of who were married off to other Royal Houses in Europe - large and small. See examples of the lozenge on female royal arms online, such as those of HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne ), Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice. Hope this helps.

As always great video and fantastic finds !! Love the watch. Thanks so much for sharing

Hi Nicola! The song at the end of this is beautiful! My granddaughter sounds very much like her when she sings! Wow! Gave me goosebumps!

Interesting, I have my great-grandfather's folding ruler. They cam to Canada in 1903 from Scotland.

i don't know how to call it, but is an openable ruler used in the XIX century to mark the route on the nautical charts, so was used on the boats. usually were made with ebony wood and brass. Nice find dear.

Another wonderful video Nicola!!!! Also enjoyed the music very much. Thanks!!!

Amazing finds Nicola. As always!

That pale green of the bottle stopper sure shows up well, I could see it before you even panned closer. I compare it to looking for agates here in WIsconsin, Im constantly on the look for an orangey-red "skin" on the rocks, althought they do come in a variety of colors. Google up "Lake Superior agate" once and you will see what I mean.

I had a ruler like that, we called it a cabinet maker's rule.

Another great video. Some more nice pipe bowls. It must be exciting to find so many different types of clay pipes. Just like finding silver hammered coins. You don’t know what you have got till you clean them.👍😀

Great finds Nicola and perfect music🤗

Try opening the back lid on the watch... could be some peronal inscriptions or something..?

Tic toc sound affect 👍

Nice finds love the watch,pipes and pot awesome

I would never want to leave your mud flats! So exciting!

The plaque looks like a Fire Mark. In the days before a properly organised fire brigade insurance company customers paid their relevant insurer for fire cover. Tthey were given a plaque to put outside their premises so the fire fighters could verify if they were proper paid up customers before they extinguished the flames!

I don't think that the one "bullet" isn't a bullet; but a fuse. It may be much older than WW2. Another great video .

I just want to tell you that I discovered your channel about a month or two ago and I've enjoyed it very much. You have a charming, easy-going narrative style and I really enjoy watching you make your discoveries and listening to you discuss them afterwards. So thank you for the great content. Keep doing what you're doing. Oh, and Happy Guy Fawkes Day. :)

Very nice finds. Thank you for sharing.

The fish you show on the pipe bowl is an heraldic dolphin in a position known as torqued. Dolphins can be seen on the arms of some of the London Livery Companies. In particular, the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers [1512,] and the Worshipful Company of Watermen and Lightermen [1585] .The dolphin can also be seen on the arms of the Lloyds Register of Shipping,. So, your pipe was quite possibly used by someone actually working on the River Thames, and maybe even a member of one of these guilds Interestingly, the National Arms of Barbados 1965 following independence, also show the dolphin The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders [ 1619] may well have a catalog of pipe designs that you could research ? They may even know if such a design was commissioned by one of the 'water' guilds Loving all this history of the City

The Coat of Arms you found is a British one, hence the lion rampant and the unicorn opposing and the other small lion above the crown at the top. Where the shield should be is instead a lozenge which indicates it is the coat of arms of a woman, and in this case an unmarried woman as married women always/often take a shield. The fact that the lozenge sits upon an oval might indicate she is widowed as this was often done. It isn't a wall fire insurance plaque as it is too small and the coat of Arms does not belong to an insurer's company. It isn't a Royal Warrant as it is appears to be too small for that purpose. Hoping this information in conjunction with the location might help you date the plaque a little more accurately. Good luck.

Great video and fantastic finds!! The little fish pipe is adorable and that measuring device is quite intriguing.... thanks!!!

Thank you for the fascinating upload. It was a wonderful vacation to the Thames; quite enjoyed my time there watching you mudlark!

3 Military pocket watches in similar area sounds like a downed war time plane ? And the measuring device looks like a navigator's instrument.

It would be neat if you could trace the watch to the person who it was issued to buy the serial number.

So much fun mudlarking on the River with you and your friends. I am amazed and delighted at how much life we live behind us to tantalize and mystify. Thank you for taking us along and sharing the fun and beauty...it's a little embarrassing how much I look forward to the next one :-) From an Ozzie on the other side, Cheers.

USA here, hi Nicola I am still loving you and your passion for history. I also love the music at the end.

the plaque with unicorn & lion is coat of arms

would that be a knight's helmet at the top of the lion/unicorn plaque?

Such a tease! I saw this in my subscript info and got SO excited, another video to watch and be inspired by! I cant wait!!!

Wow ... what an exciting mudlarking adventure. Love the little penny pot and the watch. The clay pipes are always a treat to watch you dig out. Something I have found myself doing is when you hover your camera over a search site (just before you zoom in to pluck or dig your find) I stop the video and try to see if I can locate what you have found and are about to reveal. Thanks again ... wish I had more information to help you further identify you find but, I'm still trying to gather more information on a rather large E Wright Chesterfield Stoneware jug I found while exploring an old gold miner's site.

See, now you’re just teasing us. 😃 You and Si Finds have whetted my appetite.... and I’m going in, my permit arrived this morning. I shall wave across a misty Thames in the future. Just a quick question, there is a very unique sound the foreshore makes on all the videos, is it the tinkling of the shards of pottery knocking against each other?

It looks like a Roman representation of a dolphin.

I would love one of these pipes so much! I’m in love with history, and it would just be so lovely to display one of these from the shore of the Thames. Bless you for your videos.

Like artifacts and bone fragments in the mud,I find myself stumbling on videos that you made that I haven’t seen before! The adventures continue to fall into my lap!😊

I live in Florida. I want to come to England just for mudlarking!

thisles, I am having a Danny Kay moment all of a sudden... ;-)

Thank you Nicola for another wonderful video. Loved your finds and always wonder what you will find next.

Great finds Nicola

I would be scare to do it without glowes 😨😵😱

google Mk VII percussion tube could this be your mystery item

Another great video as ever. Makes me want to go mudlarking. I've been a couple of times along the Thamar border between devon and cornwall. Found lots of bits and pieces. broken bits of pipe stems, animal teeth, parts of ink wells etc but nothing complete. Even so was exciting to do and just goes to show if you look hard enough there is history right under our feet. I love metal detecting too. Look forward to your next one xx

Great video Nicola!

the watch on the right looks like it still has a lens in it

Mystery item i think is an oil bottle for a 303 rifle fits in the butt of the rifle

Nicola , the brass "thing" is a weel from an oil lamp ,used in an ships mast, and turning the end lifts the glass front a little bit en helps to open the lamp !

Really enjoy your channel. Thanks for sharing your finds, really awesome. 🦆🦆