Metal Detecting Bronze Age Britain
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While I would never turn down the opportunity of metal detecting on any land, as nobody knows what might have been lost or buried anywhere in the past, if we habitually search sites where nothing much ever happened then usually our find bags will contain nothing much! Site research not only results in more and better quality finds but also provides some reasons as to why we find things where we do, which adds interest and a sense of history to our fascinating hobby.
In this book we will look at the Bronze Age of British history to discover what our ancestors were doing and where they may have deposited metalwork either by accident or design, so that you can find a larger share from that era.
If you would like to hone your skills in researching and searching Britain’s Bronze Age land, then this book is for you.
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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Metal Detecting Bronze Age Britain - David Villanueva
Metal Detecting Bronze Age Britain
David Villanueva
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Earlier peoples left visible marks in the landscape. We could seek to metal detect any and every one of these marks or features but if we had some idea of who or what produced them, we may be able to find artefacts of most interest to us. To achieve this, I propose we go back beyond the Bronze Age and work forward from there.
Britain and Northern Europe has been inhabited for some 50,000 years since the late Palaeolithic period or Old Stone Age. These early people were nomadic hunter-gatherers who neither used metal nor settled in one place and left no major traces of their existence visible on the landscape. Nevertheless, flint, bone and antler artefacts may be found by field-walking. The same is true of the following Mesolithic period or Middle Stone Age.
The next period, called the Neolithic or New Stone Age, began around 4500 BC with immigrant farmers from Europe. These people now needed to live at their farms and so built dwellings, sacred henges, (Fig.1)