Metal Detecting Medieval and Tudor Britain

By David Villanueva

While I would never turn down the opportunity of metal detecting on any land, as nobody knows what might have been lost or buried anywhere in the past, if we habitually search sites where nothing much ever happened then usually our find bags will contain nothing much! Site research not only results in more and better quality finds but also provides some reasons as to why we find things where we do, which adds interest and a sense of history to our fascinating hobby and helps you to find more.
In this book we will look at the Medieval and Tudor period of British history to discover what our ancestors were doing and where they may have deposited metalwork either by accident or design, so that you can find a larger share from that era.
If you would like to hone your skills in researching and searching Britain’s Medieval and Tudor land, then this book is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Villanueva
• Release date: Mar 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005070717

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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Metal Detecting Medieval and Tudor Britain

David Villanueva

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The Normans were descended from the north men, Viking invaders of France, who had settled in land ceded to them in 912 by Charles the Simple, king of Western France. Normandy, as the Province was known, soon became the most powerful in France. The Normans adopted Christianity, together with French language and culture, which they rapidly improved upon. They replaced barbaric law with Feudalism and zealously propagated religion, building countless monasteries and churches. As accomplished warriors they improved horsemanship, armour and weaponry and adopted the French castle, a mound encircled by a moat, and topped with a fortified wooden tower. (Fig.1)

Fig.1 Motte and bailey castle at Olivet a Grimbosq, Normandy, after design in Chateau Gaillard, XX, p.93. Image by Hchc2009; used under a creative commons licence.

The decisive Norman Conquest of England in 1066 established William as King. Although William's main rivals were gone, rebellions broke out in the West, the Midlands and the North for some years; the lands of the resisting elite were confiscated and granted to his followers. By 1087 William had secured the throne of England and overlordship of Scotland