Mudlarking: Bellarmine Jugs and Witch Bottles
These 16th-century German stoneware jugs have survived intact for 500 years in and along the River Thames.
Read moreThese 16th-century German stoneware jugs have survived intact for 500 years in and along the River Thames.
Read moreLook at your sea glass collection and treasure those pastel colors, which often were the results of nature until the 20th century.
Read moreSea glass bottle bottoms might help you ID pieces in your stash.
Read moreWe asked our readers what top three things they’d like to find on the beach. Take a look at our top 10 reader favorites.
Read moreI could not believe I found six black bottle stoppers in one day...but where do they come from and what are they made of?
Read moreFiona Dart has an extensive and enviable stash of sea glass and has been a serious collector for more than 20 years.
Read moreFinding messages in bottles open windows into the lives of people I never could have met any other way.
Read moreFinding a section of a bottle base makes learning about the original vessel much easier than finding a side wall of a bottle.
Read moreCollecting the city’s waste for nearly 2,000 years, the River Thames is a great repository of discarded objects, especially glass.
Read moreThe Codd marble bottle was born from the need to keep carbonated drinks from going "flat." Earlier and original Codd bottles, and the marbles foun...
Read moreAmerica’s one-time best selling and largest producer of beer has a history possibly richer and tastier than the beer itself, and likely as interest...
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