Here's a piece of history pulled from the muddy banks of the River Thames. It's a skull fragment that is 5,600 years old. It dates to a time long before there was any permanent settlement on the site ...

The concrete stairs to the river were not designed for heavy traffic. No signpost directed visitors, the railings ended halfway down, and each individual step dropped steeply. I didn't care. Twenty ...

The phrase "One person's trash is another's treasure," certainly applies to author Lara Maiklem. She is what's known as a "mudlarker" and spends her spare time scouring the shores of London’s River ...

Join Mudlarkers Si, Nic, Adam, and Emri as they explore relic hunting in a Victorian dump. Si creatively upcycles his finds into useful objects that can be appreciated in modern times. To legally ...

The phrase "One person's trash is another's treasure," certainly applies to author Lara Maiklem. She is what's known as a "mudlarker" and spends her spare time scouring the shores of London’s River ...

After severe flooding reshaped the riverbanks, a team of mudlarkers returned to find centuries-old relics exposed by erosion.

If you wander down to the banks of the River Thames at low tide, any time of year, you'll likely see figures crouched in the mud scraping and searching. In centuries gone by, poor Londoners used to ...

The mudlarks of Victorian London were poor scavengers, scouring the muddy banks of the Thames at low tide for items of value which they could sell to survive. Little could they have predicted that in ...

A LAST call is being made for people to come forward with their stories of mudlarkers, as a third plaque is being planned to remember the tradition. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

A cheeky Georgian button depicting two people having sex is one of the many fascinating treasures which have emerged from the mud of the Thames. The piece, which is believed to date back to the ...