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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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The Field Detectives wish everyone the very best in both Health and Happiness for 2026. Welcome to a brand-new year of time travel.
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THE SEARCH FOR STATHERN HALL
The 2025 Coombs Meadow Excavation
A Presentation of our Findings
Saturday 31st January 2026
Meet & greet from 1:30 pm. Presentation starts at 2:00 pm.
St Guthlac’s Church, Stathern, Leicestershire. LE14 4EB
What Did We Find?
You are going to have to join us to find out
YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO JOIN US
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From lunatic asylums and domestic violence to love stories, success, bankruptcy and suicide, these are just a few of the stories unpicked from the small four-holed tailor's buttons The Field Detectives have found in Nottinghamshire. People and families have been brought back to life through the names and places branded on these simple buttons, which made their way onto the fields around the Grantham Canal via the Nottingham night soil collections throughout the mid-19th to early 20th centuries.
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Available to purchase from:
NEW BOOK RELEASE!
LITTLE BUTTONS TELLING BIG STORIES
The Field Detectives Talks Calendar