I came across this image on the interwebs the other day, apparently the photographer was "mud larking" along the Thames foreshore and along with medieval clay pipes, Roman coins and shopping trollies this particular time traveller uncovered a Human arm bone! (which was reported to the Police, although it looks pretty old to me!)
It's often overlooked how many people were "dumped" into the Thames over the two thousand plus years that civilisations have been calling this particular location on that great river home. Not just drunken sailors (it used to be considered bad luck for sailors to learn how to swim) tripping on ropes or slipping off rain soaked jetties but all kinds of discrete disposals, plague victims, poor people disposing of dead relatives to spare them the embarrassment of a paupers funeral, enemies, criminals, victims, the list goes on and on.
It's interesting to think about how this (often) stinky body of water that flows through the capital was perhaps the most useful conspirators to those intent on the obfuscation of illicit deaths as well as a convenient drainage ditch for inconvenient or embarrassing flotsam and jetsam.
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