Reading Land

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