Hanna Steyne This article explores the social and economic impacts of the Chelsea Embankment construction in the 1870s through a small porcelain Rhino discovered on the Thames foreshore during my PhD fieldwork. In contextualising Rhinos in Victorian London and connections to colonial activity in India and Africa, I use this object as a lens through which to present my interdisciplinary, GIS based methodology, and the narratives I created about real people, places, and things