11th Sept 2009 Added another 4000 acre farm 100+ fields, avialable at end of hunting season

Another new farm around an old Abbey added Aug 2009 for hunting straight away

Another farm with 12 + fields added for detecting from Oct 2009

Added more new fields to existing new sites for 2nd half of the 2008 season from Feb 2009

Added another new site 30th Sept for searching straight away- 9 fields, village centre, leading down from an Abbey, great potential

Added another 2 new farms for start of the new season 6th Sept 2008. One is bordering our best Celtic gold site and the other is a monster plot around an old Abbey, church and medieval village

** 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 370 + fields and 26 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 72nd 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.

New Celtic area discoved on new land Sept 2008

6th to 8thC Saxon gold Tremissis

We now have 5 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. New Saxon area discovered on new land Sept 2008

Bronze age axe heads from 2000BC to 850BC have been found on 7 sites including that fantastic axe hoard

Roman villa site discovered Oct '09

We have 3 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.

We have two 12thC Abbey sites

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 370 + or stay on one during your tour !!!