©Bryan Phillips March 2025

Thanks to Charles Bullock for sharing his finds with us. He has been metal detecting in Milton Abbas for some time now and has found some extraordinary items which, with our existing knowledge of the history of this amazing place, contribute much to our understanding of what was happening here.

The image shows just one weekend’s finds in a field that appears today to be just grass, and with no visible signs of buildings or ruins, but what events must have been going on in this spot centuries ago!

Charles not only finds these but writes reports on each object. He is extraordinarily knowledgeable and uses many reference works to locate them in time and purpose. Furthermore he shares all this information with the Milton Abbas Local History Group which we record and store for future research and analysis. Many detectorists would reject ironwork and lumps of lead as insignificant and thus loose the capability of telling what was happening over the centuries. We are extremely grateful to Charles for sharing his work with us.

These objects might look uninteresting but are just as valuable to discovering our history as the two gold objects which Charles has already found this year.

Charles will be presenting his findings to our members at our meeting on 4 June 2025 at 19:30 Reading Rooms, Milton Abbas and available online to our members.