Spot the find!

21 thoughts on “Spot the find!”

1. Not sure about a “find,” but the nightjar in the lower left corner is pretty clear. . .

2. Sub

3. Hey! How did my car keys get there?

4. Mostly pottery shards and fragments of roofing tiles, also some oyster shells. Some years ago on the banks of the Thames I found a tawse, a leather strap used as an instrument of correction in Scottish schools. I would love to know the story as to how it ended up at Hammersmith.

   1. My school was in Hammersmith…

5. Clay pipe

6. Looks like a clay pipe. Very nice.

   1. Yes. A clay pipe.

7. I mainly see a clay pipe.

   1. Agree. I think I see a second one, too.

      Otherwise, haz we learned what we were supposed to see in the last one?

      1. A safety razor.

8. Lots of glass, and plastic and metals in there, but I also see a pipe of some sort. (Non-smoker here, so I can’t tell what the gray material is.)

   1. But since others offer “clay pipe” I googled images, and sure enough that is what it is!

      How they do one of … well, clay … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oKLnZGdrag !

9. Under a terracotta shard (that has a small hole in it) there appears to be an arrow-head shaped piece of flint. It looks knapped.

10. Is that a big joint up at the top center? And a pipe too. Someone’s partying on the Thames.

    1. Hmm, I thought that was an elderly carrot! Perhaps it’s the legendary Camberwell Carrot joint mentioned in Withnail & I (probably my favourite British movie of all time)?

11. Is that a rat crawling over the clay pipe or just another grey rock?

12. There is some kind of jeweled/ornamental pin hard left just under half way down.

13. I just realised I posted on the enlarged image by mistake. I’ll repeat my comment here:

    Wow! What a lot of interesting stuff. I agree with the above, but missed the lower clay pipe on my first look. There is something that looks like the head and shoulders of a ceramic model of a small bird, near the left edge, and just below the line of the holey roof tile (?) near the centre.

    Jerry, any chance in future you could superimpose a grid on these “spot the ?” photos, to make describing a find easier?

    1. Note that these pics are being posted by Matthew Cobb, one of two folks who have posting privileges here, the other of whom is Greg Mayer whose posts can be tougher to notice right away since he uses Jerry’s Ceiling Cat avatar as well (though he always signs his remarks with his initials).

       (Heck, I guess there are three, now; can’t overlook Grania!)

       1. Thanks, Diane, I missed that this time. Same question to Matthew: can you add a grid?

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