Wonderful finds. The little lady you called a chest piece could also have been a a pilgrims thing or a gift for a baby which was named Elizabeth as the figurine looks like holy Elizabeth of Thüringen. She is shown as a lady with a basket. The storie is, she wanted to donate bread rolls to the poor but her family didn't allow it. So she took the clothes from her maid, went out of the castle and got catched by a family member. Been asked what's in the basket, she answered: Flowers and when the cloth was taken away there have been roses instead of bread rolls. So take a closer look to the basket to identify her😉

@sherafrazier

Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful story!

@gwendolynfish2102

Жыл бұрын

It certainly looks like you are correct Rita! Beautiful!

I love the little lady you found, Alex. When one of you said it looked like a chess piece, I wondered if you could use your random broken finds to create a unique chess set. Men’s heads for kings, women’s heads for queens, horse heads for knights, small bottle stoppers turned upside down for bishops, etc. Perhaps attach the heads onto various lengths of glass tubes or round bottles filled with small pieces of colored glass or rocks for weight, and attach the tubes onto tile bases. A set could be a premium item for your Etsy Shop.

@XPALYDO

2 жыл бұрын

I totally was thinking she was the queen of a chess set!

@susanbdusan2785

2 жыл бұрын

How creative! And the legs could be pawns.

@bkitteh6295

2 жыл бұрын

You are a GENIUS!!! A chess set of larked finds would be amazing!!

@kaitlyngwinn1038

2 жыл бұрын

Every set would be 100% unique!!! I love this idea

@fairyacorn4854

2 жыл бұрын

I think the stopple boppers would make good pawns.

Blue Beads."In the east end too, it was customary for women and female children to wear blue glass beads around their neck as a 'preventative for bronchitis'". From "LONDON The Biography" by Peter Achroyd . pg211 This is from a chapter in the book talking about the plague years . It would be interesting to know if the practice was common in other places than the Eastend of London .

@NorthernMudlarks

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that info! We just found something about it in an old book, so it was a common practice at least from the mid 19th century. Also common in places like Turkey xx

Happy New Year! Next time you visit the field of dreams, Alex should say "I'd really love to find a gold coin or two"! And then, see what you discover 10 seconds later! 😉

@joellenmeek658

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

FABULOUS...I think the little bisque lady with the basket is the patron saint of mudlarks 😊

Happy New Year to two adventurous, curious, intelligent, creative, warm-hearted, and generous mudlarkers! Here’s wishing your next spin around the sun is even more treasure filled than this last one. Stay safe out there! And thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing with us.

@Chr.U.Cas2216

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Michele M. 👍👌👏 Very well said, very well indeed. I wanted to comment similar but fortunately you already did all the writing work. ;-) Nevertheless I like to add: beautiful, enthusiastic and with a big positive aura. Happy new year. Best regards, luck and health.

LOVE the wee chess piece lady (if that's what she is?!). Reminds me of the Lewis Chess Pieces! The grape shot is cool too - makes you wonder what was going on it that field..?! I said to Sarah when you kept pulling out doll legs, but no arms that 'something was 'afoot' in this field that there were just legs and no arms... bad joke, but 'armless' really...' then you found one, but I'm still using this joke here! Haha! Fantastic video and great editing, as always! Great to see our wee spot in your end of year round up too! Must get another collaboration arranged this year when suits you two! Happy New Year from us all at DSoS HQ - Willie, Sarah and Jack. :) xxx

@gregreed1044

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, by all means, please do meet up again….🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

That little lady is so sweet. Made even more wonderful for how Alex discovered it. 💕♥️💕

I still get so happy for you Alex when you find your treasures! Your fun happiness in finding your doll little legs is contagious!!Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm ladies!!! It comes so refreshing these days to hear you both so happy when you find things! Greetings from California….🌹🌹happy new year! stay safe! 😉

The figurine and the clay marbles were great. The tiny doll parts were from doll house size dolls from 1840s to the late 1800s.

I feel like finding you ladies was a blessing for me. I absolutely love the both of you and all your adventures. Not only have you gotten me back to crafting, I have also ventured out of my comfort zone and have been trying new things. When Alex said she was having trouble looking for so many items. What I would do is focus on the mud and everything that isn't mud sticks out at me. I found doing that helps me a lot. Just a thought. Thank you for all the adventures.

This is so much fun to see. My mother now 81 used to do this when she was young on their own land, a tulip farm in Limmen (Holland) an old village dating back to Roman era. She found many Roman pot shards and very old pieces of pipes, very fine ones from the 1600 and other bits and pieces even a mammoth tooth. One day she came up to her room and found that her mother chucked everything away. She was heartbroken. This was in the 1950..Her mother said, I cleaned up your room, it was such a mess…😵‍💫 So nice to see mother and daughter mud larking together. ❣️

If I had too many pipe stems, I would cut them into smaller pieces, paint them, and call them "beads". Happy New Year Gail, and Alex!!

@marilyndreamwalkermejorado1208

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I love the Pipestem beads. And fairy houses from bowls you made.

I used to love to go hunting in the fields behind my house growing up, never found anything like what you do just arrowheads, but I loved it. That lady figurine is amazing.

I maintain that this is still the best intro to any KZread video I've seen. Happy New Year girls!

@NorthernMudlarks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! xx

@marilyndreamwalkermejorado1208

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agreed 👍👏

A very happy,HEALTHY,new year to you both ,your family and all my fellow watchers.Sue.x

Dang, that’s a sweet nodule! And I love that there’s just a moment of Alex presenting a little hilarious sliver of doll butt without comment ☺️

Wonderful leggy day! The caped figure was lovely. And, I love the family history repeating.

The brain is an amazing thing and your eyes are actually part of your brain, so when you vocalize something you hear yourself and a sort of request is sent to your eyes to focus.

@phylliswilliamstn

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

Thank you for bringing such joy to me every Sunday in 2021… living vicariously through y’all❤️

I too found a little girl with basket in a ploughed field exactly the same, I always thought it had snapped off something as mine too has a rough base. It has sat on my mantle piece for over 40 years. I'm looking forward to see what you do with her.

I absolutely love it whenever Alex wipes mud off of an object on her pants 😄! It’s such a satisfying connection through the magic of the internet to the delightfully mucky, wholesomely dirty physicality of the places you gals are exploring! (Also, I live in NYC, and as much as I adore my city, most of our dirt is frankly extremely gross 🤔😳)

A little red riding hood, my mother collected them. There were at least 50! She boxed them all up one day, lol she was tired of dusting them. I love watching you two, the way you 2 interact reminds me of my mom. You two are awesome. Thank you for your videos and the love you show is amazing.

I’m glad to see that Barbie is appropriately dressed for the weather! ❤️ Hope you had a lovely holiday season :) you do brighten the day for me:) I love watching! Thank you 😊

You charming ladies are always a joy to watch. Thanks for providing another year of fun and adventure, and best of luck in the New Year. Seasons greetings from beautiful Rhode Island!

I first found your channel a couple months ago and have been binge-watching in chronological order ever since. I finished the last one last weekend, and now I'm watching one on the first day released! I enjoy all your adventures and am looking forward to many more in 2022.

@manchestertart5614

2 жыл бұрын

You might have already seen other mudlarkers but I recommend that you watch,some of the people in the end of this video. Nicola White and Si finds ,mostly on the Thames. A personal favourite of mine is Kit and Caboodlers ,a mother and daughter who are occasionally assisted by Oscar and their cat Sunny.

Wonderful video Ladies! I loved the pipe history section, incredible that you are doing the same thing as your ancestor! I often wonder if Nicola White could be a descendant of Thomas White, he seems to have been the most prolific pipe maker in Britain and like you said "it's in the blood" The little lady is just gorgeous! Wishing you both a happy and healthy new year and I am looking forward to more amazing videos 😃💗 x

Lovely wee woman wrapped in white wool scarfs with a wicker basket... Is it just me remembering back to the days when a lid and a pipe meant something more? 🤣

What great finds! The little bisque figure is so special. Wishing you all the very best for a happy and healthy New Year. ❤️🇦🇺🌹 xxx

What a wonderful trip to the Field of Dreams! Thank you for starting out the new year with another fascinating adventure. I loved the stories about the fairy pipes and the trip down memory lane of 2021. I hope 2022 finds you happy, healthy and lots of fruitful adventures and projects. Thanks so much for sharing with us.

So much fun! I love how Alex is more excited for the button than the coin. Love it!!

Hola me encanta ver sus videos,que manera de encontrar tesoros ,pero lo que más me gusta es ver su transformación y hacen verdaderas obras de arte .Un gran abrazo desde Chile

@sylviacortes3251

2 жыл бұрын

Guauuu todos juntos yo los veo a todos😍😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Wonderful finds...wow! I love the legs and that tiny bottle and the tiny lady...so good to seek you both...I think your finds have a message that says to me that you are on the correct path for both of your. Love all the salutations...so much fun and information. My imagination goes wild!

Hint: little bisque porcelain figure pieces can be easily and quickly reproduced with molds and efficiently fired in a home kiln. Can be personalized with low fired colored clay stains, easier to work with than the low fired glazes....will make excellent charms and jewelry candidates....👍 Thanks for the amazing adventurous videos!!!

That barbie is definitely Alex with that cap on! That glue bottle was cool and I love listening to Alex read! 😍 All the best for 2022!

Wishing you health and happiness for the coming year. Hope the feilds and beaches you visit are filled with endless treasure. 😊

If the glaze is really shiny it is modern. Old glazes are matt, normally lead which is green, or they are salt glaze kind of brown and tin glaze white / blue , I think , being a potter I should know, but have not done it in 25 years, If Roman normally burnished, this was done with a smooth stone to seal the clay when wet or leather hard, string or cord was used as decoration, pushed into wet clay, the posh stuff terra cotta with relief designs on the pot, clever Romans, their glass was super, us English were a bit more crude in design, but they worked as good wholesome cook wear-Love the clay pipes, as a smoker would love one,

Loved every moment of this video. But the ending with a recap of all the joint-mudlarking adventures with other muddy friends was so much fun as it brought back happy memories of times well spent. All the best to the Two of You for 2022!! xx Karen

"And here are some of our favorites finds!" "Body part!" this made me laugth xD

Mr.Adshead really missed the boat not calling it Adsheasive!😂

Best wishes Gail and Alex for a happy and healthy 2022! I very much enjoyed the account of the fairy pipes and your familial connection to them.

What an incredible mudlark! I don’t know how you find those tiny treasures in a sea of gray mud. And it must be so tiring to walk in it, too. Well done, ladies. Loved the family history! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Happy New Year, Gail & Alex 🎊 Love from Michigan, USA 💕

I have never missed a show. You two are great. Sometimes it makes me wish I lived in England again. When I watch your show I mush I missed doing there. May God Bless you in the the coming year and keep you safe.

Love the little figure eating berries or cherries. Missed you two over the Christmas period and so pleased to see you back with us all again. Very interested in the fairy pipes and the lovely story you told us. A very Happy New Year to all your family from me Fairy Acorn.

Marvelous video! I found the fairy pipes quite interesting. My 7th great grandfather, Thomas Spell, was a tobacco inspector in colonial North Carolina in the mid 1700s. Perhaps he had inspected some of the tobacco that was used in those pipes! 😄

Love a blue bead! Amazing finds on the field of dreams that keeps on giving! Happy New Year everyone!💕💕WV🇺🇸

The stone looks like a clear opal. Great find!

Love watching you two find your treasures. I'm in the USA, and there was an old tradition of making memory jars. They used plaster on stone jugs or pots to press beads, stones, jewelry, buttons into. I wonder if you gals would be interested in making one with your extra pottery pieces? Thank you for sharing your treasures with those of us across the pond. Lol

What a wonderful tribute at the end. All of our favorite mudlarks saying Hello! 2021 was a better year because of your adventures. Gave us all something to look forward to each week. Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year! ❤

So interesting. Do you know how these treasures ended up in this farmer’s field? Amazing!

Love your enthusiasm & excitement when you're treasure hunting 🤗🤭❣

Happy new year to you and yours! Looking forward to another year of treasure and crafts. Thank you for being so gracious and taking us along with you.

Happy New Year! May this year bring the best finds ever!

@NorthernMudlarks

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! xx

HI GAIL AND ALEX !! IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU AGAIN. YOUR VIDEO IS GREAT. JUST A THOUGHT, YOU COULD PUT PLASTIC BAGS OVER YOUR BOOTS OR SHOES AND TAPE THEM AROUND YOUR ANKLES TO KEEP THEM CLEAN. WELL THAT BEING SAID, LOVE THE LITTLE LADY YOU FOUND, REMINDS ME OF ST. BERNADETTE AT LOURDES. NICE FINDS. HOPE YOU HAVE MANY MORE YEARS OF TREASURES. HEALTH AND GOOD CHEER TO YOU. STAY SAFE.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

That is so cool that you found out that a family member centuries ago was into that stuff. Into the pipes. That is just amazing. I actually have ancestors myself from the United kingdom. And it would be so great to find ones that live there today. In my blood I have english, scottish, irish, and welsh. That's on my mom's side of the family.

Great start to the new year. Amazing how much treasure the field gives up each time. Just enough to keep you coming back. Hope the year is a fruitful one. Looking forward to following you both on your new adventures.

I loved the flashbacks with all the other Mudlarks at the end of the video. And Celia (Cecelia?) with the snail! So cute!!! ❤️ Happy New Year ladies! I wish you many wonderful finds in 2022.

Yaaaay catching up on my favorite mudlarks! ♥️♥️

Gail and Alex, I absolutely love your channel. I even got my mother who is 88 and a 67 year old sister to watch your channel. They don’t miss an episode. Your finds and craft making are beautiful. I lived in England for 6 years in the late 70’s and thru 86. I wish I had hear about mudlarking. Anyway what is your link to your online shop? Keep searching and reach for the stars

Happy New Year to the two of you! Your adventures and excitement never fail to make me smile. "May the best of your past be the worst of your future."

@marilyndreamwalkermejorado1208

2 жыл бұрын

That's a wonderful saying.

I am absolutely astounded by the things you found just walking through a field!

What a great day you had. I’m watching in June2024.

Love the little berry lady! That field is a gift, so many great things found there, beads are always a fav...

I live in NB Canada…my great grandmothers name was Sarah Taylor..before she married my great grandfather Harvey Caldwell. I definitely have some Scottish roots…maybe we have a similar bloodline 🤷🏼‍♀️😊

Great video..loved the story..just wanted to snuggle with Alex on that chair..toooooo adorable..loved the arm find.. Alex is tuned in🥰

I've been watching your channel for over a year now I live in Michigan in the United States and I just love watching you two. It's so exciting to see what you find and your making so many memories.

Your cake topping lady, looks like an interpretation of Red Riding Hood. Thanks for the year end wrap. That was lovel.

Oh I love the fairy story .The little lady you found.

Happy New Year! Can’t wait to see what we all find next year!

The field gods were definitely with you, great finds and the history of the fairy pipes then the little bottle. My favourite is the little figurine. Happy New Year guys may it be better than the last two, love from Western Australia 🥳🥰👍👏❤️🥂

Whatever you find out about the pottery pieces. I hope you just collage them all in a picture frame representing a year of collecting anyone would love to own. Nice finds and interesting history as well😎🇺🇲🎉

Omg there you are. I watched The radioactive video and loved it. Then my sorry carrier lost internet and I was miserable! I have to stay on roaming! I'm so glad to see you. It seemed like a year!

Happy New Years to you both! I enjoyed seeing all the things you have found over last year and the start of the New finds this 2022 so far! 🤗❣️👍🌸

You guys are so cute. Love watching… fun to watch what you find, make, and cathartic to put on before sleep. I so want to go out with you guys. Looks like a terrific time. Living in the US, we just don’t have the depths of things to find. Ours are aboriginal in nature.

Try spraying your mud boots with rain-x auto window rain repellant....might possibly keep the mud from sticking so thick...👍

Good morning ladies. I like the way that you look up the history of the things that you find. I think this is a good thing cuz it teaches people. Thank you all for your videos I think they are so cool. Stay safe stay healthy God bless.

I know this is a somewhat older video. I just wanted to say seeing you in your jammies by a fireplace Christmas tree in the background is absolutely wonderful!!! I hope you would consider doing a night before Christmas reading each year.

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉 Awesome finds! 🤗 EnJoyed tagging along. Thanks for sharing. How fun! 💫 Peace abide... wishing you wellness, safety in all your treasure searching adventures. 🎁💛

Happy New Year to both of you lovely ladies! Great finds! I love the end of the film with the clips from 2021 with Auld Lang Syne playing. Thank you for taking me along on this journey. Xxx

They lose their legs walking through that rough field

happy new year ladies , big hug to you both 🥰

Wonderful way to start the New Year. So glad I found this channel last year, love the histories of some of those finds. The Old advertisements are a joy, as well. Love the superlatives in those ads. (One simply can't do without, the benefits of those fabulous products.) By the way I recently celebrated the 44th anniversary of my 21st birthday. (That means I can toss my fake ID into the trash receptical.) Have so enjoyed your finds, & the enthusiasm you both have. (I made a resolution that I won't be so verbose in my comments this year. But then I thought, why deprive readers of my wit & effervescent personality? That wouldn't be fair to the several people who may actually read them.) Seriously Happy New Year to you both. May God bless you this year. May this be the second best Year ever for all.(the first being the Year I was born, of course.👌😉) Again Happy New Year from myself & my beloved grandchildren. PS you should slice that white stone with the clear insides (trying to be accurate & scientific) & make pendants. Canada has a beautiful stone called Ocean Stone (I believe) it is so beautiful, they slice those stones & some make jewelry from it. It is stunning to be honest. (Learned of it from a Canadian gold miner I follow on YT. Dan Hurd (working from memory so I'm probably wrong). Many blessings to you & your entire family for this New Year. Thank you for your wonderful videos.

Anyone who might find a little lady with her basket would be thrilled. Beautiful find Alex. And, Gail, the little partial dog... whenever something like that is found I want to tuck him into a small basket with a tiny blanket to hide the missing parts. Give the little guy some comfort. Silly me, I've been researching Beatrix Potter. I almost pictured Beatrix searching the field with you without the squeamish live creature finds. Lucky you to have a family connection to the fairy pipes. My ancestors have moved halfway around the world, so who knows about them? I wonder where you found the book that had the fairy pipe article. The only books I've found that might have references to my ancestors are in different languages. Fascinating film this week! Thanks so much for your hard work, and it's a pleasure to see you enjoy it so much.😉

That jug handle made me think "omg bridge" ...it'd look really cute used as a bridge in one of your little dioramas you make with the pipebowl fairy houses. Means you have an excuse to find and bring home jug handles now (::

Happy New Year 2022 so enjoyed you both taking me along today! Keep creating and be safe❣️❣️🇨🇦

I think the all the legs was the fields way to help you get through that mud LOL :-)

Happy New year to you too, ladies. You started off the New year with some lovely finds. How lucky are you, to have found a letter written by a family member, from so long ago. Speaking to us from the past, through his relative so far in the futcher. Bet he never thought that would ever happen, when he wrote his thoughts down and posted. How anazing was that little figure. I wonder if she is Little Red Riding hood. When she wandered through the woods and collected blackberries for Granny? What a great find that was, who ever she's meant to be. Good luck in all your mudlarking in 2022 ladies. I look forward to seeing what you find next. Xxx

Legs! Everywhere! Lol. Happy New Year!

Amazing field you have there! I would definitely try to metal detect it, there should be dozens of coins and even more metallic relics to be found, especially if you're just finding them on the surface!

Happy New Year to my Favorite treasure hunters!!! That foot, ( if the bottom was ground off) would make a GREAT silver pour for pendants! The front only of the robed Lady also. Hope your 2022 is AMAZING!

Hello Beauties, It's been an outstanding year for Mudlarking. Your calm spirits have soothed my troubled soul time after time. Thank you for sharing your talents, stories and ideas with us. May you be blessed in 2022 with all you wish and hope for. Happy New Year to the two ladies that got me started watching Mudlarking. Remember our friends the Johnsons, and many prayers for Caroline. Greetings from North Carolina U.S.A.

Happpy new year! I love your channel. Watching you two on adventures together makes me feel nostalgic, and bring good memories of beachcombing with mom.

Hi you two beautiful ladies. When I was in school I took ceramics and loved it so when you find the broken German marbles I always want to tell you how you can use them when you make your lunch pot bowels. Just after you apply your glaze and get ready to fire your pieces break up one or two broken marbles and put it in the bottom of the bowl. Fire as usual allow to cool you should have beautiful colors coating the bottom of your bowl. Thank you both for all the trips to places I can no longer get to.love your channel

Love the finds ladies, always relaxing watchng you two

Loved that ceramic lady in a cape - nice find! Wow! 4 legs in one day! I always love the historical perspectives on your finds - the fairy pipe background was very interesting. Wishing the Northern Mudlarks a very happy New Year. Thank you for an excellent video.

Wishing you both a happy, healthy and safe 2022!🎉❤️

I loved watching and listening to your wonderful adventures in the 'Field of Dreams'.

here in Brazil, I send my sincere wishes for a wonderful year for you two and also for all these wonderful people who appear together with you. I love everyone... happy year 2022.

You two tickle me to no end. Ani absolutely love the jewels you create. In North Carolina, USA, I was so focused on finding fossilsed shark teeth, I probably would have entirety missed a Spanish realm!

Fabulous way to start the new year, such good finds. The GARTONS stopple bopper reminded me of the bottles with Gartons embossed on them. I started calling them Hanky bottles, which puzzled my digging friends for some time. it was about a year before I told them to read it backwards !😀