What 30 Years of Surveying Land Taught Me About Finding Metal Detecting Sites

What My Surveying Work Taught Me About Finding Metal Detecting Sites

My surveying career taught me that a productive detecting site is rarely just an old place on a map. The useful clues come from connecting ownership history, occupation length, buildings, boundaries, and how people actually used the ground. I learned that lesson twice: first when old records led me to a farmstead that produced pre-1920 … Read more