For a mixture of reasons, we have had a slow start to the second part of our 2024/2025 season.
In November 2025 whilst out detecting on a permission we have had for 5 years we arranged a meeting with the landowner who we'd never met.
His farmhouse was easily visible from the field we were in as it's farmed by one of his tenants.
After a quick call to him we agreed a time and set off.
We were greeted by his wife and invited in for a cup of tea as the landowner wasn't there. I looked at my 'phone (I'd put it on silent mode entering the house) and saw that he'd text me saying he was going to be 30 minutes late.
We had a lovely chat with his wife and son, and showed them some of the finds we had made that day and pictured from other surveys that are stored on our online image website, Flickr.
He arrived and looked at our field images of the surrounding farmhouse and other farms he owned about 15 miles away.
He advised us to look at the ones in stubble as the ones around the house were shooting grounds and would be unavailable until the end of January 2025.
He also said we'd split anything of value 50/50 and to fill our boots!
When the other fields are available in February 2025, he said "knock yourselves out".
March 1st arrived which saw our first chance of visiting these new fields.
The field we chose had been drilled the previous October with Winter Wheat.
We hit a hotspot which produced some Roman pottery and 26 Roman coins.
There wasn't much iron or lead which we found quite odd when looking at the amount of other evidence found.
By 3pm we were worn-out with the soil being quite 'sticky' earlier on in the day adding extra weight to our wellingtons.
All the HD images can be seen here.
In November 2025 whilst out detecting on a permission we have had for 5 years we arranged a meeting with the landowner who we'd never met.
His farmhouse was easily visible from the field we were in as it's farmed by one of his tenants.
After a quick call to him we agreed a time and set off.
We were greeted by his wife and invited in for a cup of tea as the landowner wasn't there. I looked at my 'phone (I'd put it on silent mode entering the house) and saw that he'd text me saying he was going to be 30 minutes late.
We had a lovely chat with his wife and son, and showed them some of the finds we had made that day and pictured from other surveys that are stored on our online image website, Flickr.
He arrived and looked at our field images of the surrounding farmhouse and other farms he owned about 15 miles away.
He advised us to look at the ones in stubble as the ones around the house were shooting grounds and would be unavailable until the end of January 2025.
He also said we'd split anything of value 50/50 and to fill our boots!
When the other fields are available in February 2025, he said "knock yourselves out".
March 1st arrived which saw our first chance of visiting these new fields.
The field we chose had been drilled the previous October with Winter Wheat.
We hit a hotspot which produced some Roman pottery and 26 Roman coins.
There wasn't much iron or lead which we found quite odd when looking at the amount of other evidence found.
By 3pm we were worn-out with the soil being quite 'sticky' earlier on in the day adding extra weight to our wellingtons.
All the HD images can be seen here.
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