The Hertfordshire History Hunter
Follow my journey as I unearth the history in the North Hertfordshire countryside with my Minelab Equinox 900 and dig deeper into my adventures in the HHH blog below!
The big permission
Back in 2022 I wrote an article for the September edition of Treasure Hunting Magazine titled “Where have all the finds gone?”. At the end of that article I mentioned that my time there had come to an end for that season…
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Finds identified III
Back in May I wrote a blog called ‘detecting, writing & work’ in which I talked about helping Treasure Hunting Magazine with the layout of the May and June issues of the magazine. Having helped out on previous issues…
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Another 100 acres
As we all know one of the most frustrating and difficult aspects of this hobby is obtaining permissions. It’s because of this that I feel incredibly lucky to have access to some brilliant permissions, one of which…
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Detecting, writing & work
It’s that time again where I’ve had another of my articles published in Treasure hunting Magazine, and this time it’s more of an interview based affair about the archaeologist Gilbert Burleigh. It all came about through a chance meeting…
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Gil Burleigh – archaeologist
Somebody, somewhere said to me that a great way to obtain permissions is to politely ask the question on Facebook community pages. Specifically ones which are hosted by villages, the reasoning being that…
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Writing about Detecting
It’s quite clear that over the past few years metal detecting has had a huge impact on my life. From my first trips out on the family fields finding iron scraps and lead seals, to now finding Roman artefacts…
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Still noisy at Weston
I do consider myself to be incredibly lucky to have a permission that keeps on giving, and it gives in many ways. The obvious being the finds that it has been producing which at this point in time include…
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The hobby becomes work!
So here I go again, yet another set of my metal detecting ramblings to make it into Treasure Hunting Magazine. This time it’s all about the Roman discoveries that me and a friend have been finding…
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All noisy on the Weston front
I’m sure most detectorists would agree that the hardest part of our hobby is obtaining permissions. I have been trying so hard for the past few years to get my own permissions outside of the couple of fields my family owns…
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