PERMISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Metal Detecting Search Permission Made Easy

(True Treasure Books, 2007)

David Villanueva has over 30 years of experience in metal detecting and research, in Britain and is a regular contributor to Treasure Hunting magazine. He has been responsible for seven reported finds of Treasure, and has built up a collection of other coins and artefacts that would be the envy of many.

But EVERY ONE of those finds has started from either getting 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. David draws on his experience at successfully and painlessly gaining search permission on a wide range of sites both as an individual detectorist and club leader and reveals ALL in this fact-packed book.

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 AND CODE OF CONDUCT

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

 

Soft cover, 210mm x 146mm, 52 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-9550325-3-0 £3.50

SOME FEEDBACK RECEIVED:

Just a quick note to say I purchased your "Permission Impossible" booklet earlier this year. I read it many times, decided on the "project approach", did my research and spent some time finding the actual landowner. Within 2 days of her receiving my letter, research info and maps, she had invited me to the farm for a chat.

The upshot is that I now have my first land – 200 acres of pasture / arable, the farmhouse being a 1620 listed building– with a roman road passing through it, "Camp" marked on one field on an 1803 O/S map, a roman villa recently identified by aerial view in an adjacent field, springs, a Saxon hillfort nearby and significant finds on nearby land over the last decade.

So – thanks, who knows if I’d have secured this if I’d not followed your advice, and if I find anything interesting you’ll be the first to know!

Cheers Paul