Reading Land
Description
This book is primarily aimed at relative newcomers to the hobby with a nod of recognition to the old hands at the game who will find one or two snippets worth adding to their site finding knowledge. In Reading Land the author, Ted Fletcher, aims to draw the readers attention to the sites (which he calls "nodal points of communication") where people have congregated in the past and where, by definition, the occurrence of casual losses of coins, jewellery, artefacts etc increases dramatically. This A5 title of 98 pages has 57 informative illustrations and is sure to help you locate the most productive areas to search with a detector or eyes only.
Contents:
Introduction
Barns
Cropmarks
Reused Building Materials
Pollards & Coppices
Vanished Industries
Windmills & Watermills
Crop Recognition
Droving Routes
Stiles
Manor Farms
Ponds
Converging Routes
Elevated Grounds
Churchyard Walls
Hollow-Ways and Hedgebanks
Nettles & Elders
Trees & Hedgerow Shrubs
Moated Sites
Eyes-only Techniques
Reading Maps
Boundary Lines
Isolated Churches
Farm Gates
Monastic Sites
Rural allotments
Rivers and Streams
Named Meeting Places
Farm Shops & Pick Your-Own Sites
Motte & Bailey Sites
Modern Farming Techniques
Vanished Mansions
Prosperous Villages
