Successful sites, according to most metal detectorists, are those with the potential to produce large quantities of quality coins and artefacts from all periods; Bronze Age to modern.

This is the only site guide you will ever need for the author of Site Research, explains clearly how to generate a host of successful detecting sites from every place in the guide, which will keep your finds bag overflowing for years to come.

And to lead you to these sites, there is a wealth of valuable information included together with superb facsimiles of 92 highly detailed Victorian maps covering every U K county so you get a complete antique county atlas as well.

We needed Victorian county maps covering the UK, showing sufficient detail and features to be of real use to detectorists and are pleased to have located these superb specimens at a scale around 5 miles to the inch (scale varies slightly according to the size of the county).

The maps for England and Wales come from Thomas Dugdale’s Curiosities of Great Britain (1846) and are by the renowned mapmaker Joshua Archer. They contain an abundance of information for the detectorist such as detailing the Hundreds, market towns, manors, polling places, roads, rivers, canals, mail coach routes and the few railways that existed at the time. Also included are many castles, abbeys, priories, Roman sites and even some coin hoards.

The maps for Scotland and Northern Ireland come from two Philip’s Atlas’ published in 1882 and 1883 and are by another famous mapmaker John Bartholomew. They outline every parish in Scotland and every barony in Northern Ireland.

The Channel Islands and Isle at Man maps come from the National Gazetter published in 1868.