Trash or historical artifact?

Name: Trash or historical artifact?
Uploaded: 2020-01-15T16:47:22Z
Duration: 13 min 46 s
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.

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Lara Maiklem |

TEDxNewcastle

• October 2019

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.