Permission Impossible: Metal Detecting Search Permission Made Easy
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The find of a lifetime starts with obtaining search permission or legally avoiding that obligation.
Where can you legally search without permission? How do you find the landowner to ask for search permission? How do you persuade the landowner to give their permission? These are the questions on the lips of many participants in the hobby, be they beginner or old hand.
In this groundbreaking best seller, expert metal detectorist, treasure hunter and internationally acclaimed author, David Villanueva, draws on his experience at successfully and painlessly gaining search permission on a wide range of sites both as an individual and club leader to reveal ALL in this fact-packed book.
Feedback from readers has been absolutely phenomenal. Reports come in almost daily of detectorists securing permission on not only their first site but also one with great potential for making exciting finds. And, in less than a fortnight, one determined reader gained permission to search ten square miles of land – can YOU beat that? Get your share now before all the land is gone!
David Villanueva
David Villanueva (1951- ) was born in Birmingham, England, where he grew up. In the early 1970s his mother bought him a copy of Ted Fletcher's book A Fortune Under Your Feet, which, together with David's great interest in history inspired him to buy a metal detector and take up treasure hunting as a hobby. Family stories about the origins and history behind David's Spanish surname also spawned the hobby of genealogy. A career move brought David to Whitstable in Kent, England, and it was here that David's love of history research developed into great success both in metal detecting and family history research. A little later David felt the urge to put pen to paper and started writing articles for the two British metal detecting magazines - Treasure Hunting and The Searcher – which have published more than two dozens of David's articles between them. Success in writing articles soon led to David's first book: The Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual: How to Easily Develop Your Latent Skills to Find Treasure in Abundance, published in both digital format and paperback. To date, David has written over a dozen books in the metal detecting, treasure hunting and family history genres.
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Permission Impossible - David Villanueva
PERMISSION IMPOSSIBLE:
Metal Detecting Search Permission Made Easy
By David Villanueva
Smashwords Edition
All Rights Reserved Copyright 2012 David Villanueva
Introduction * This Land Is Mine * Make For The Coast * Search And Recovery Service * Tracking Down Landowners * The Planners * Writing a Letter and Getting It Read * Properly Addressed? * Code of Practice for Responsible Metal Detecting in England and Wales * Search Agreements * Visiting Cards * Public Land * The Blanket Approach * The Project Approach * On the Move * The Services Offer * The Subsidy Approach * Bibliography and Further Reading * Appendix – Major UK Landowners
INTRODUCTION
The biggest problems facing the metal detecting hobby today are undoubtedly finding productive land and securing search permission. My printed book Site Research, (Greenlight Publishing, 2006), deals extensively with the quest for productive land through map, local history and document research. Research in itself will always help secure search permission by effectively answering the landowner’s question: Why do you want to search my land? What’s more you are almost guaranteed good finds once you obtain permission. So site research is a very good way of improving your chances of obtaining permission, which I will cover later along with many other tips and techniques designed to multiply your land portfolio.
As the new chairman of a metal detecting club, which over the years had become a ‘landless society’, I was charged with the task of finding land for the club to search. This is where things can get difficult. Many landowners willingly give permission to one or two detectorists to search but facial contours distort somewhat when you say: And will it be OK if I bring twenty mates along?
I skirt around this problem for the club by saying ‘as few as one or two of us’ and if that is the agreement then the club can run a rota system so that all can share eventually in the ‘reduced number searches’. One other potential problem with clubs is the amount of cars that turn up for a search. Car sharing doesn’t seem to go down well with detectorists and this can be a problem for a farmer. Please make sure it isn’t or you probably won’t be visiting that farm again.
Let’s now take a look at the reasons search permissions are refused. The biggest reason used to be the non-committal: we don’t allow that sort of thing. Today, in my area, Kent, the most often quoted reason is that: we already have a couple of detectorists on our land. As well as still not allowing that sort of thing, another reason might be that the occupier is a tenant and in that case, the tenant will usually co-operate if you get permission from the landowner.
Our task here is not to try and oust other detectorists from land they have diligently obtained permission to search and any attempts at that may result in everyone being banned from that particular land. But rather to work around other detectorists’ patches by seeking out productive land where permission can be relatively easily obtained or no other detectorist treads, for whatever reason.
One very important point is that you absolutely must work tidily. There is little point in making the effort of getting permission only to have it withdrawn because you are making a mess and putting the whole hobby into disrepute as well. So wherever you are searching -- field, beach, garden -- you must leave the site as you found it with all holes filled in and extracted rubbish removed. If the land is used by domestic animals such as livestock or horses the consequences of leaving unfilled holes could be tragic. King William III was killed when his horse stepped into a small hole – fortunately there were no metal detectors in 1702 so they can’t blame us for that. Landscaped areas such as gardens and parks need special attention and aim for invisible extractions. Use a straight-edged trowel to cut a neat plug with three or four sides approximately 200mm (8") long. Cut the plug with sloping sides to help its keying in when you replace it. Lift out the plug, invert it and place it on a sheet of polythene, plastic bag or Frisbee so that loose dirt and the plug can be put back into the hole,