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** Another new farm just added for Sept 2008 - Important Roman area next to a river and estuary
** Another new farm 700 acres just added for 1st March 2008 - never detected before around an old Abbey, Roman and Saxon area
** Another new farm just added for Sept 2007 - never detected before, good Roman/Saxon area New farm added Sept 2006, New farm added Nov 2006 We are very fortunate here to not have to hunt stubble. All the farmers allow us to hunt on their land at all times including drilled and cropped land. We take great care of our hole filling and it does not effect the crops in any way. Currently we have more land than it is possible to hunt at around 200 + fields and 21 sites. Although we have all this land, farmers still ask as a personal favour to hunt friends and relatives farms which we cannot turn away, especially as apart from one none have ever been detected before. All of our farms are in the process of hot spotting as we have barely covered them but we are slowly getting there. We have existing fields no one has detected on yet !! All of the 20 sites have their own particular characteristics. The whole area is one of the most Nationally important Celtic areas in Britain next to the oldest recorded town in the country and the Roman capital. This year we found our 66th Celtic gold coin. So far we have found 3 Celtic villages and 2 Celtic offering sites
1. 45BC Addedomarus the Grandfather of Cunobelin the King of Colchester 10 to 40 AD
2. Morini - the French tribe that crossed the water to settle here in 70BC
3. Cunobelin village 10 to 40 AD - only found in March 2007
Clacton type 50BC, Cunobelin 10 -40AD offering site with 100 BC Imperial Roman silver There is evidence of Beaker people on 2 sites which have been excavated by the museum in 1970 There are previous finds of 2 Celtic gold torcs on separate sites Two sites have Bronze age villages with graveyards, henges and round houses which had a full Field survey report written about it.
6th to 8thC Saxon gold Tremissis We now have 4 distinct Saxon sites which are the rarest of all the finds - two of the areas were only found in Nov 2006 and they are huge plots. Bronze age axe heads from 2000BC to 850BC have been found on 6 sites including that fantastic axe hoard We have 2 sites with medieval fairs starting in 1300 AD We have found an amazing POW site from Napoleonic to WWII The other sites are a mixture of Domesday book period houses, house sites etc. Some of the fields are 200 acres in size and no one goes on them as they are just so daunting. You choose the sites/fields you hit each day and you can try and hunt all 200 + or stay on one during your tour !!!
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