Mudlarking on the Thames Foreshore
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2020-07-20

Liz Anderson is a Thames Mudlark and FROG, passionate about London's history and recording her mudlarking finds via blogging, photography and social media. 
Recent years have seen an explosion in the popularity of mudlarking with finds providing useful information about how people lived and worked on the Thames in centuries past. The foreshore provides a particular challenge in that it's often impossible to trace the journey of a particular fragment or item, their provenance uncertain. However, Mudlarks have a role to play in re-evaluating the rubbish deposited by the river at low tide, and adding depth, meaning and identity to individual histories that might otherwise be lost to future generations.


Liz Anderson 



Thames Discovery Programme
Foreshore Forum 2019