Maria Theresa, Roman Empress

Whilst reading Deborah Cadbury’s ‘The Lost King Of France’ (Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII), I finally worked … More

Some Rose Farthing Business

Excuse the farmer-cheek pink fingers, I’d like to present to you a pretty little Charles I rose farthing. Dating from … More

Last year I started to collect mysterious little lead squares as they began to surface on foreshore trip after foreshore trip. … More

There are many items that my long-suffering, non-larking partner finds it hard to get his head around. Some I can … More

❄️Mudlark’s Advent, Day 9 ❄️ Ceramic sherds, especially the more recent kind, aren’t a big love of mine, as you … More

❄️Mudlark’s Advent, Day 7❄️ Jacks, Snobs, Knucklebones, Chuckstones… what do you know it as? Dating back to before the Greeks, … More

❄️ Mudlark’s Advent, Day 5❄️ Fly button by Parfitt, Roberts & Parfitt, sword makers and military tailors of Jermyn St. … More