As we can’t get out on to the foreshore at the moment, we’re sharing some of our #ForeshoreFavourites on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. We’ll do a regular FROG blog round up too, as an archive and for those of you not on social media. Here are our posts from the 20th – 26th June 2020.

Lowtide Lockdown 3

On Saturday 20th June, we virtually visited our third site during lockdown – this time exploring the Greenwich foreshore, exploring fish traps, the Tudor / Stuart palace jetty, the Trinity Almshouse stairs and much more! Again we have saved the visit via Twitter as a ‘Moment’ for our archive – and you can read all about it here.

Sites in Focus

We focused on sites and finds in west London this week and started with a fabulous article by Hanna Steyne about her PhD research in Chelsea, on the impacts and effects of the construction of the Chelsea Embankment. On Monday we visited Vauxhall and on Tuesday featured this amazing medieval tile found by Stefano Ambrogi late last year. It’s been identified by Ian Betts at MOLA as a Dieppe tile (Norton design 52) from late 14th-early 15th century Normandy.

On Wednesday we paid a visit to the foreshore at Fulham Palace where regular monitoring by the Fulham FROG team has revealed a wealth of early medieval features, including the incredible survival of a wattle hurdle (see picture below – it’s possibly part of a fishtrap) dating to AD951 +/-26. For more about the site, read the blogs by Julia and others here.

We went all the way west to Isleworth on Thursday to check in with the early medieval (AD 650 – 890) fishtrap; almost 10 years ago, FROG member Niall popped by for a look – read about his visit here. And finally, for #FridayFinds, we featured the early medieval fish-shaped shield mount, found on the Barnes foreshore in 1977 and now in the collections at the Museum of London.

MUD

We had over 50 entries for our photo competition for the best muddy photo from the foreshore during lockdown – you can see the gallery online at Flickr HERE. Our favourite, and thus the winner was this gorgeous image of house martins on the foreshore, sent in by the Rotherhithe What’s on Group. A huge thank you to everyone who took part!