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    How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research
    How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research
    How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research
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    How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research

    By David Villanueva

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    If you habitually search where nothing much happened in the past then you can expect nothing much in your finds bag. The key to finding where people lived, worked and played in the past, and lost metal objects, is research. The traditional way of research is to start with your local library (or the library nearest your area of interest) and once you have exhausted their records you move on to regional and county record offices and finally to The National Archives. This method of research is still widely used but the big problem with this research is it takes a large amount of time, with travel, booking places, waiting for records to be accessed and copied — time that can be better used for metal detecting.
    The Internet used to be fairly limited for conducting useful research but over the last few years there has been so much digitization of documents and amazing software developed that you can do most research just sitting at a computer screen. And remember that your local library now has public computers and the expertise to show you how to use them if you cannot access a computer at home.
    In this book you will find a superb collection of Internet resources that will lead you to those productive metal detecting sites. Buy it now and order a larger finds bag.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Villanueva
    Release dateSep 24, 2019
    ISBN9780463510384
    How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research
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    David Villanueva

    David Villanueva (1951- ) was born in Birmingham, England, where he grew up. In the early 1970s his mother bought him a copy of Ted Fletcher's book A Fortune Under Your Feet, which, together with David's great interest in history inspired him to buy a metal detector and take up treasure hunting as a hobby. Family stories about the origins and history behind David's Spanish surname also spawned the hobby of genealogy. A career move brought David to Whitstable in Kent, England, and it was here that David's love of history research developed into great success both in metal detecting and family history research. A little later David felt the urge to put pen to paper and started writing articles for the two British metal detecting magazines - Treasure Hunting and The Searcher – which have published more than two dozens of David's articles between them. Success in writing articles soon led to David's first book: The Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual: How to Easily Develop Your Latent Skills to Find Treasure in Abundance, published in both digital format and paperback. To date, David has written over a dozen books in the metal detecting, treasure hunting and family history genres.

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      How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research - David Villanueva

      How to Find Productive UK Metal Detecting Sites Using Internet Research

      David Villanueva

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      All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Copyright 2019 David Villanueva

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      1 Introduction

      2 Simple Research

      3 Archaeology Databases

      4 Aerial Imagery

      5 Map Overlays

      6 A Look at LiDAR

      7 Land Utilisation Maps

      8 More Maps and Magic

      9 British Newspaper Archive

      10 Roman Britain

      11 Manor, Church and Mill

      Books in Print from the Same Author

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Several images are reused in this book, with grateful thanks, under various Creative Commons Licences. To view copies of these licences, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

      A few images have been used with grateful thanks to ARCHI UK and Google and their partners. Thanks also to all who have so generously made their work freely available online at Wikipedia.org and elsewhere

      1 INTRODUCTION

      I have often said that if you habitually search where nothing much happened in the past then you can expect nothing much in your finds bag. The key to finding where people lived, worked and played in the past, and lost metal objects, is research. I should add a hint here to look for sites either frequented by large numbers of people or the wealthy or used over a long period of time. And if you can get two or even all three of those factors together you can really fill your boots.

      The traditional way of research is to start with your local library (or the library nearest your area of interest) and once you have exhausted their records you move on to regional and county record offices and finally to The National Archives. This method of research is still widely used and I cover it in detail in my book: Site Research for Detectorists, Fieldwalkers and Archaeologists and E-book: The Successful; Treasure Hunter’s Essential Site Research Manual: How to Find Productive Metal Detecting Sites. Notwithstanding that trawling through old documents can be a pleasure in itself, the big problem with this research is it takes a large amount of time, with travel, booking places, waiting for records to be accessed and copied — time that can be better used for metal detecting.

      At the time of writing Site Research in 2006 the Internet was fairly limited for conducting useful research but over the last few years there has been so much digitization of documents and amazing software developed that you can do most research just sitting at a computer screen. Remember that your local library now has public computers and the expertise to show you how to use them if you cannot access a computer at home.

      Here is a fine collection of Internet resources that will lead you to those productive metal detecting sites.

      2 SIMPLE RESEARCH

      We can start with a search engine, Google, Bing and Yahoo are the top three. A simple search is the word history followed by the name of the place you are interested in. Wikipedia, the internet encyclopedia will usually have an entry. Check that out and follow references. At this point it would be wise to start making a list of potential sites in a retrievable form such as a text or spreadsheet document or good old-fashioned notebook. Do not use scraps of paper or they will soon get lost.

      As an example I performed a search on ‘history River Medway’. Wikipedia came up on the first page on all three search engines mentioned. Wikipedia’s entry included a useful potted history and reference to an antiquarian book: Samuel Ireland, Picturesque Views, on the River Medway: From the Nore to the Vicinity of Its Source in Sussex: with Observations on the Public Buildings and Other Works of Art in Its Neighbourhood, (London, 1793).

      https://archive.org/ has digitized

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