Searching for Sites..

[Silver Searcher]

Searching for sites..what do you look for. This is what I look for High ground near water, especially spring fed. Churches, it was compulsory to go to Church right up to the 14thc, also they were a lot of trader's in the Church grounds and people would bury things at Church gates.
Construction sites, especially ones that are near Roman roads, a couple of years back I had some nice finds from a Motorway extension. When I find a good site I hunt the hedge sides, the workers wifes would often sit there in the shelter of the hedges and mend clothes and cook food..great place to find thimbles and spindle whorles ect. These are just a few.
What's yours

SS

 

[shaun7]

Somewhere near an off-license

 

[hammered]

No more than 5 minutes walk from my back door

 

[Silver Searcher]

No more than 5 minutes walk from my back door

Hence the lack of posts

SS

 

[hammered]

No more than 5 minutes walk from my back door

Hence the lack of posts

SS

I have found some stuff recently, you know Roman, Saxon etc. But I was waiting for you guys to give me a bit of competition before I posted . Seriously though, I'm busy working on your second favourite thing in the whole wide world, sausages and new recipes for my local pig farmer

 

[Silver Searcher]

No more than 5 minutes walk from my back door

Hence the lack of posts

SS

I have found some stuff recently, you know Roman, Saxon etc. But I was waiting for you guys to give me a bit of competition before I posted . Seriously though, I'm busy working on your second favourite thing in the whole wide world, sausages and new recipes for my local pig farmer

I had hoped it would be a serious thread, but that's out of the window now.

 

[hammered]

No more than 5 minutes walk from my back door

Hence the lack of posts

SS

I have found some stuff recently, you know Roman, Saxon etc. But I was waiting for you guys to give me a bit of competition before I posted . Seriously though, I'm busy working on your second favourite thing in the whole wide world, sausages and new recipes for my local pig farmer

I had hoped it would be a serious thread, but that's out of the window now.

OK mate, back on track . I check my "Fair sites of England" then check OS maps and local history, if that looks good I check Google Earth or other sources for A/Ps. Oral history can work too, I also do a fair amount of field walking (with Benson) looking for pottery etc, but I don't do this without a sausage sandwich (sorry mate, had to slip that one in)

 

[Silver Searcher]

No more than 5 minutes walk from my back door

Hence the lack of posts

SS

I have found some stuff recently, you know Roman, Saxon etc. But I was waiting for you guys to give me a bit of competition before I posted . Seriously though, I'm busy working on your second favourite thing in the whole wide world, sausages and new recipes for my local pig farmer

I had hoped it would be a serious thread, but that's out of the window now.

OK mate, back on track . I check my "Fair sites of England" then check OS maps and local history, if that looks good I check Google Earth or other sources for A/Ps. Oral history can work too, I also do a fair amount of field walking (with Benson) looking for pottery etc, but I don't do this without a sausage sandwich (sorry mate, had to slip that one in)

Ok but just be carefull were you slip that sausage

SS

 

[gwdigger]

I use old Atlases from the mid 19th century and compare them with google. Houses, roads, churches...and so on, they're all marked.

Heres one from Talbot County Maryland, 1875 to 1877:

http://www.mikehitch.com/estndist.gif

Its literally a treasure map. Most of these sites are in farm fields and the old maps are damn accurate. Modern roads are almost identical.

The ones near creeks an rivers usually prove to be the oldest. Keep in mind any building listed could be a hundred years older.

Easy and cut Spanish coin pie...

 

[hammered]

I use old Atlases from the mid 19th century and compare them with google. Houses, roads, churches...and so on, they're all marked.

Heres one from Talbot County Maryland, 1875 to 1877:

http://www.mikehitch.com/estndist.gif

Its literally a treasure map. Most of these sites are in farm fields and the old maps are damn accurate. Modern roads are almost identical.

The ones near creeks an rivers usually prove to be the oldest. Keep in mind any building listed could be a hundred years older.

Easy and cut Spanish coin pie...

Nice one gwdigger , thats what I was talking about

 

[gwdigger]

I use old Atlases from the mid 19th century and compare them with google. Houses, roads, churches...and so on, they're all marked.

Heres one from Talbot County Maryland, 1875 to 1877:

http://www.mikehitch.com/estndist.gif

Its literally a treasure map. Most of these sites are in farm fields and the old maps are damn accurate. Modern roads are almost identical.

The ones near creeks an rivers usually prove to be the oldest. Keep in mind any building listed could be a hundred years older.

Easy and cut Spanish coin pie...

Nice one gwdigger , thats what I was talking about

One positive thing about this method is a person can find the sites before they even go out for a day of detecting. Last night I tied down 2 different sites and google earth proved they are both in farm fields. I just have to get permission. Both of them show the remnants of old drive ways that lead to where the houses once were. There are no drive ways noticeable today - they can only be discerned with the google earth ariel view. In fact, without google earth i might have never found there exact locations. Its too easy.

)

Sort of like the Nazca lines. You really cant make any sense of them until viewed from high above.

 

[treasurepirate1]

old schools and school houses are great especially for low denomination coins because kids played in the yards almost everyday. somewhere where i know was never completely excavated, somewhere where trash is at a minimum but good finds might be, another spot i look for but never found are is picnic sites, my guess is usually under old trees is a younger forest or under an old tree in a field, in and around old gardens are great also because people are always bending down and losing things like coins and rings in the soil. and old maps are also great things to use as well if you can find them. and my best judgment is always key as well.