Sparkly mule on the ABP turning circle (associated British ports) near Eling Tide Mill, River Test, Hampshire, UK.
An incongruously glitzy addition to what today is a fairly industrial and unvisited bit of foreshore. This lonely mule was found a kilometre downstream from the Eling Tide Mill, one of the few working mills still to harness the tide to grind wheat, just as it has for 900 years. Further along from the mule, at low tide, older remains, those of Mesolithic trackways, are preserved in the intertidal muds. Rapid burial in the anoxic muds could see this mule being incorporated into the archaeological stratigraphy- but what will it tell the archaeologists of the future?
Helen Holman March 21, 2021