short takes: creek glass!

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ The inside of a Dunkins Munchkin box, empty of donut holes. Instead it holds a bunch of creek glass in various colors, mostly white and green, but there’s also a blue and a pale purple. And some rocks ]

I don’t think anyone’s been mudlarking along Fountain Creek, cos I spent at least as much time wrangling Remy as I did actually looking for stuff, & I still found this much in maybe half an hour. I hadn’t thought to bring my mudlarking backpack, which has several pouches & a sash to hold them, so I just filled my pockets. I’m surprised my phone screen didn’t get scratched, cos I only had two pockets & one was not REMOTELY gonna be enough.

Plus, blue. & a relatively easy shape to wrap. Some great rocks in there — check out the red & white to lower left — & some pottery bits, a very good vertebra, a piece of PURPLE (rare, but I’ve found several there), & another piece that might be an even paler purple once I’ve scrubbed it.

They’re all sitting in a big jar full of water for a day or two, & then I’ll take them outside with an old toothbrush & clean them off. I’m pretty sure there’s a pair of dark green pieces close enough to make earrings out of, & I know there’s enough white for a faery home decor piece or two. I can always use more pendulums, & the blue is the perfect shape for the tip of one. I can’t wait to see what I make.

Found anything cool on the ground lately? (If not, I highly recommend mudlarking, especially if you can get to Fountain Creek …)

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Comments

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Awesome finds.

Not recent, but I found a "Swiss Army" type flake tool at the edge of my yard. Depending on how you hold it, you can access a somewhat smooth edge, a somewhat serrated edge, or a point. For the Early American who wanted to travel extra-light! It's so impressive. And you'd never know it unless you picked it up and moved it around.

Re: Wow!

[kellan_the_tabby]

ohhhhhhhhhhh DAMN, nice find! I've somehow never found one, for all the wide variety of stuff I've picked up over the years.

Re: Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

One of our neighbors, a farmer, was an avid arrowhead collector. He had several very large boards laid out like his fields, on which he had attached the vast collection of arrowheads, spearheads, and other flat artifacts. The bulkier ones were displayed on shelves. He had some spearheads bigger than my hands, and tiny bird-points barely the size of a thumbnail. I've seen museums with less impressive collections.