larking the term mudlarks was used in the eighteenth century to describe the poor street urchins who scavenge the rivers much for anything they could sell. though for an hour and florence much larking it's just a hobby. i can see. what. there's a little bit of white ball that's what they would have rested on the table. will say they really are like cigarette butts people just used to throw them away smoke the walls and that's right from about fifteen eighteen when i was introduced to the u.k. . but before you can go digging around in the mud at the thames you need a special permit from the port of london north or a city. those who find anything of real value or archaeological interest must present it to the museum of london to be registered and valued and it was then i