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METAL DETECTOR LINKS
Metal Detecting Smartgroup Online metal detectorists forum.
Yorkie Bill's Metal
Detecting M/d website from Yorkshire.
UK Detector
Net
Dave's Detecting Site
Detecting from Bucks, west of London.
Persuets Metal Detector
site
Ports Detect 2001 Detector finds from the South coast.
Phil Harvey's M/D
Website of another Norfolk metal detectorist.
The National Council
for Metal Detecting (UK) The representative organisation of UK
metal detectorists.
The Federation of
Independent Detectorists Good quality UK website
FAVOURITE METAL DETECTOR
NEWSGROUP
uk.rec.metaldetecting If you have a Usenet client such as Outlook Express, and your ISP allows you Newsgroup access, then visit this forum.
METAL DETECTOR MAGAZINE
LINKS
The Searcher
Magazine
Treasure
Hunting Magazine
COIN LINKS
Sylloge
of Coins of the British Isles Online database compiled by the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
OTHER LINKS
THETFORD FOREST
ARCHAEOLOGY My son's website.
Visit East
Anglia, Land of the Iceni
Wicklewood A Parish
Web Site for a village in South Norfolk.
Wesley's Hoard Story
Wesley found this small hoard of hammered silver coins in 1999. He was showing me a meadow that he had just been given access to. We had previously checked its position out on an O.S map, Faden's Norfolk County map of 1797, and on a 1629 manorial map that I had transposed onto a modern O.S grid. We noted that until the enclosures of the early 19th century, the next field was Common land. The meadow had recently been reseeded, and the topsoil was quite exposed, showing abraded sherds of medieval pottery, suggesting that the meadow had once been used as arable. Anyway, Wes started to detect around an area of brick rubble in the middle of the rather wet meadow.
I then suggested that he try a very slight rise near to the edge of the meadow, which used to border the old common. My argument was that settlement in that area was predominately common-edge, and that if I was to build anything on this damp soil, I would build it on the highest ground. I stamped my foot down on the spot I favoured, and Wes swept his coil over it - instant signals. The result can be seen on the right. A small hoard of 13th century medieval coins, all dating to the reign of Henry III 1216 - 1272 (including one scottish half-coin - the majority of the coins had been cut into halfs - to make half-pennies). An example of research, and knowing your landscape.
Harnser