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Smoker Yadkin from the woods red white just missing the blue , Happy Independence day weekend!! #arrowheadsofinstagram #nativeamerican #nativeamericanart #indianartifacts #huntergather #tennesseefinds #flinttools #stonetools #projectilepoints #campsite #cheerokee #cheerokeenation #preservinghistory #relics
I found this lovely piece of worked flint at the weekend while I was (field) detecting. This is my reward for looking at every piece of flint in the field! I believe it is a “Thumbnail Scraper” possibly Mesolithic!
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The weather was kind to us today as @thamesdiscovery arrived on the foreshore at #Richmond for monitoring.
The first three weeks in November here are known as the annual Draw-Off, when the @port_of_london_authority open Richmond Lock & Weir in order to carry out repairs & clean out the silt. At low tide, it makes my local stretch of river, from Richmond to Teddington Lock, look like someone’s pulled the plug.
It’s also a rare opportunity for a #mudlark to make unusual finds as so much more of the river bed is exposed than usual.
George from the Richmond Archaeological Society brought along a stunning flint hand axe he found in the river here last year. It’s mind-blowing to hold in your hands a tool from approx 43,000 years ago. Caves & mounds from this period once stretched from Richmond Hill/Park along the old river Embankment with mammoth, bison & reindeer being hunted for food.
At low tide you can see timbers from both the old Georgian & Tudor jetties.
Richmond was once the home of a magnificent Tudor Palace, reputed to be Elizabeth I’s favourite & where she died on 24 March 1603. Sadly, little remains of the original building & only the entrance with Tudor crest above an archway in Old Palace Yard indicates that there was once a hugely important building on this site. The Tudor Palace was eventually destroyed in the 1650s on Cromwell’s orders.
If you swipe through, you can see a ‘dirk’ (a long, thrusting dagger) from the Stuart period, found on the foreshore near the old palace. The handle is new, modelled on the original, which was nicknamed a bollock dagger, for obvious reasons...
Also near this site, 18 year old Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales & eldest son of James I of England & his wife Anne of Denmark, went swimming in the Thames, fell ill & died. A bright & talented young man, this meant that his stubborn & less suitable brother Charles ascended to the throne instead, becoming Charles I. How different things might have been if young Henry hadn’t taken that ill-fated dip in the Richmond river!
Swipe through again for a sherd of Lambeth stoneware pottery from 1700 depicting Queen Anne, the last of the Stuarts, found here on the Richmond Foreshore.