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If you have a field or a mystery that you would like us to investigate please contact us: field.detectives@gmail.com
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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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War, What is it Good For?
Over the years, The Field Detectives have been involved in three air crash investigations, and each one holds a significant set of stories that need to be told. Some of those stories can be seen here and here. In a world still consumed by conflict, war, and multiple layers of ill-informed hatred, we have an opportunity to create a storytelling space where people, young and old, can come together to reflect, learn, and debate the concept of war. It isn’t enough that the stories of those brave airmen are featured in reports, books, websites, and museum storage facilities. We need something that illuminates their stories through interactive engagement – but this can only happen if we come together to make it happen!​​
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Primarily, the crash site investigations began in Goadby Marwood and Eastwell, Leicestershire, and it wasn't long before the investigation spread far beyond Leicestershire, across the country and overseas. It became a collaboration of many.
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​If anyone wants to join us to help generate the momentum so that together, we can create something significant to serve the legacy of those who lost their lives in pursuit of freedom, then please contact us.


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Field Survey Calendar
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The Owthorpe Block of Fields Investigation
Sloe Hill
Friday 8th August 2025 – from 10:00 am
Sunday 10th August 2025 – from 10:00 am
Hoveringham Hall Close Investigation
Looking for the home of Sir Robert Goushill
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March to October 2025​​
Nottinghamshire's Pompeii Drone Flight​​
​The next set of drone images will be here soon. The remaining months of this year's investigation will focus on the building to the south of the barn and the circle while the barn is covered over for the winter. If anyone has any old large tarpaulins they would like to donate to the investigation, that would be a brilliant help to us.




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The Field Detectives Talks Calendar