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If you have a field or a mystery that you would like us to investigate please contact us: field.detectives@gmail.com
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Investigation Invitation
The Field Detectives is a group of historians that seek opportunities to survey fields that can tell us more about how our historic landscapes evolved. By sharing the findings from our field surveys, we help to inform and re-engage people with their local heritage. One of our favourite sayings is “Every field tells a story”.
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One Step Closer
On Friday, 21st March 2025, The Field Detectives completed the survey on Pillbox Field at Stathern in Leicestershire. The purpose of the survey was to find and record artefacts from the ground that could be associated with the location of a 17th-century house, that was once in the possession of the regicide, Colonel Francis Hacker.
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The Pillbox Field survey proved to be informative and laid the foundation for future avenues of investigation. It also opened a door onto a Bronze Age landscape that we didn’t know anything about - how amazing is that?
The Field Detectives celebrating the end of the Pillbox Field Survey
Field Survey Calendar
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Stathern, Colonel Hacker’s Mill (Mill Field) – The Search for Stathern Hall
Survey Team – Sunday 6th April 2025 from 10:30 am
The field survey search grid will be set out the day before (Saturday 5th April 2025)
Parking is on-site (grass verge) at Jill and John’s house on Mill Hill at Stathern
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Hoveringham Hall Close Investigation
Looking for the home of Sir Robert Goushill
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March to November 2025​​
The Field Detectives Talks Calendar