Trash or historical artifact?

Name: Trash or historical artifact?
Uploaded: 2019-10-05T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 13 min
Description: One person's trash is -- a century later -- another's historical artifact. In this talk, author Lara Maiklem introduces "mudlarking" -- the practice of scavenging river banks for hidden treasure -- and tells of the physical history lurking under the miles of mud along the Thames.

TEDxNewcastle 2019Oct 201913 min10356 views

Speaker

Laraq MaiklemAuthor | Foraging Historian & Urban Nature Storyteller

About this talk

One person's trash is -- a century later -- another's historical artifact. In this talk, author Lara Maiklem introduces "mudlarking" -- the practice of scavenging river banks for hidden treasure -- and tells of the physical history lurking under the miles of mud along the Thames.