Metal detecting around Stone Henge

no as long as your ten miles away

Illicit metal detecting, also known as 'nighthawking'is a form of theft

thanks 11kv. ten years it took to move the stones to site.

And ten more years for 10 masons to craft them to shape and into the white stone that was seen at the time. great stuff.

Went with the school in the 70's climbed all over them all day ,now you are only allowed to look from a distance

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/


This lot will give you the full run down about what you can and can't do,all belongs to the crown does it not....

Was only born 74. Last time I went was about ten years ago and was as you described.

A metal detector was all I wanted aged 10 or so. Not sure about the rules on farm land in general. Will check that site out.

Suppose they had to stop people crawling all over the stones as they are crumbling without help from joe public...

Stonehenge would be about the last place in the world worth doing any metal detecting.

It's essentially a stone age site  , and the arrival of the bronze age in Britain seems to coincide with people no longer bothering with the place .

Also unlikely that the thousands of archaelogists who have dug the place up so many times will have missed anything worthwhile.

Interesting subject though ....

Near where i used to live was a previously rural area that had vast numbers of typical 1960s housing dumped on it , but there were about 12-15 wooded areas , on average football pitch size , dotted around. I assumed the council had planted trees there to offset the environmental horror of their gulag type housing estate . Then i noticed that some of those trees looked fkn old, centuries old , and looking on the google historic map for 1940s i saw that , while all the areas where the houses were later built were open fields/farmland , the wooded places were exactly as they are today in size and location . If those small woods were there in 1940 they were most likely there in 1040 , and maybe 1000 years before that , as there would have been no reason for the landscape to be altered until it was urbanized.

Always when you hear of the great coin hoards being found they are found in a farmer's field in open countryside , but IMO they would not have been buried in open countryside . No one is going to dig a hole for their treasure in plain view of people that can see them a mile off , you would want cover . Britain was much more heavily forested 1000 years ago and seems likely to me that you'd go into the woods to hide your money , most of those woods have been chopped down and used for agriculture , hence the finds in fields .

I was thinking the woods i saw would have been an obvious hiding place as they'd have been the only cover around when an army was coming down the road.

This was the best find in recent years...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_Hoard


''Gold artefacts were discovered by Terry Herbert on 5 July 2009, when he was searching an area of recently ploughed farmland near Hammerwich, Staffordshire with a metal detector.[6] Over the next five days, enough gold objects were recovered from the soil to fill 244 bags. ''

I didn't think Gold had been invented when Stonehenge was built