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BBC News Published image copyrightJill Mead In January, the Hertford Union Canal in East London was drained for essential repairs for the first time in 20 years, and is due to be refilled in April. The Canal and River Trust put out a call for volunteers to clear out the rubbish from the 191-year-old canal. Anna Borzello went along with a group of friends who normally search the Thames foreshore for archaeological artefacts (a hobby known as mudlarking) to find out what had lain beneath the waters. As I stepped off the ladder and onto the exposed bed of the Hertford Union canal, heading towar...

Advertisement A cheeky Georgian button depicting two people having sex is one of the many fascinating treasures which have emerged from the mud of the Thames. The piece, which is believed to date back to the 18th-Century, was found by a 'mudlarker'. The term is given to the people who comb the 100-mile foreshore of the Thames and pick up objects and artefacts revealed in the mud by the twice daily changing tides.   Anna Borzello, 54, found the erotic miniature button, which is small enough it sits on a fingertip, earlier this year as she was walking along the river.  'I like the idea of so...