I have decided to take up Metal detecting as a hobby as a way to get out of the house.
Tried to join the SAS (Somerset Artifact Seekers), but all the clubs are full with waiting lists now.
Just written to 10 local Farmers to try to get them to let me detect on their land.
If you don't get the permission you can really only detect in your garden, beaches and rallies.
The clubs have farmers they work with but like I said it so hard to get in them.
I was mucking about with a website called Wheres my path the site is split screen on one side its a ancient map and the other side its modern google so you can look for any differences
So I tried it out on the fields across the road found a few differences like springs then suddenly in the middle of the old map there was a cross and written site of Roman Villa and the modern map nothing just plain fields.
I didn't know only a 10 minute walk away there used to be a Roman Villa.
I have asked the farmer for permission, but im not holding my breath he seems a right miserable Bastard always putting barb wire on top the gates to stop people walking their dogs along the top of the fields.
I imagine he's been asked loads of times before. but it would be perfect if he said yes.
