Romano British site first recce

[Limey-digger]

Today I finally gained access to some land that I have been researching for about 3 years. I have secured permission to detect the land as soon as the wheat crop has been harvested. Today was a kind of eyes only field walk around the boundaries. No old gold or coins today but the surface finds of Roman tile fragments and pottery sherds with some medieval glazed ware sherds have me chomping at the bit to get into the field. Don't think my wife will be seeing me much over the next few months as I am going to be out there rain or shine at all times of day.
Here is a link to a previous post of mine that outlines a bit of research on the site and why I am so excited about this one. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/x-marks-spot/469705-romano-british-villa-site-discovery.html

George.

P.S final photo is local field being harvested today the first of the year and a sign that the season is about to kick off

 

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[robfinds]

Can see why you're getting excited George, good luck. Robert.

 

[Westfront]

The cropmarks look a bit odd, but very promising. Wish you luck on that site and hope it isn't hunted by nighthawks. A field with cropmarks like these, available on Bing or Google would be emptyyyy here....

 

[thrifty76now]

All I can say is go for it and let us know of the results.Good luck to you.

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeap, those are strong cropmarks, the sort of thing that found us many sites. Its the less obivious ones that sometimes do better, having said that your going to do just fine on this. Grid it carefully.

 

[Limey-digger]

Can see why you're getting excited George, good luck. Robert.

Thanks Rob this site does look real promising hoping for some good stuff from here if it is good as the surrounding area has been in the past I'm onto a winner

 

[Limey-digger]

The cropmarks look a bit odd, but very promising. Wish you luck on that site and hope it isn't hunted by nighthawks. A field with cropmarks like these, available on Bing or Google would be emptyyyy here....

Danke fur ihre antwort. My first indicator that there was a possible site at this location did not come from Google earth or Bing but from an old OS map(now out of print and newer versions do not reveal the location.) that pinpointed the previously known buried building. The crop marks I have shown do not appear on either Google earth or Bing unless you zero in on the site and manipulate the image by rotating it or using the historical image option. This and the fact that I have lived in the area for many years and know a great deal of what happens here due to being friends with farmers, game keepers and land owners gives me confidence that no nighthawks have been to this isolated and not easily accessable site.

 

[Limey-digger]

All I can say is go for it and let us know of the results.Good luck to you.

Will be posting up any finds for sure thanks for the tidings of good luck.

 

[Limey-digger]

Yeap, those are strong cropmarks, the sort of think that found us many sites. Its the less obivious ones that sometimes do better, having said that your going to do just fine on this. Grid it carefully.

Thanks Cru. I think the first visit with a detector will just be some random wanderings to see if I can close in on any hotspots before planning a gridding pattern.
This is the kind of site you just know you cant go wrong.

 

[landmagnet]

looks a really good potential site. Keep us all updated please!!