Unfortunately Sandra has been very unwell leading up to the Christmas period, she is currently wheelchair bound with a spinal injury. So the organised Events & Meetings have been put on hold temporarily until she can get back in touch with our Landowners for site visits.
Please bare with us for a short while.
updated 23rd December 2024
Most of the people who attended the first East Allington Dig on the 13th October 2024.
It was cloudy but dry, a cool breeze but everyone came prepared, although Sandra forgot the tea bags. We managed to take some Drone footage of the fields and the sheep. There was a very nice silver 3d piece found c.1832 and quite a few coins and other nice pieces of history.
Due to the cancellation of the original date due to the 60mph gales and heavy rainfall, we are now offering too new separate dates to come and enjoy these fields – Sunday 13th October or Sunday 27th October 2024. Same location (maybe different fields, depends on numbers attending). We will still be offering Cash on the Day, but this is at the higher price and you will still need to confirm your place beforehand by email.
There are 300+ acres available, but the amount of land released by the Landowner will be entirely dependent on the amount of people attending the event.
On-site parking is available and full details of the location etc will be emailed to everyone who has purchased their entrance ticket.
Pricing for Tickets is £18 for Adults (over 16) and £5 for Juniors (10-16). We are also offering Cash on the Day tickets for £22 per person (you don’t need to be a Member to just turn up, but you won’t receive the benefits associated with our Full Membership), but you do need to inform us by email that you intend to come and pay by cash (with the exact money please) to receive the exact location details etc.
The fields available are a mix of arable and pasture. There has been a small amount of previous detecting some years ago, but we have assurances that the majority of land available to us are undetected, and there is known history in the immediate vicinity.
There are 84 recorded Medieval & Civil War sites within a 10km radius. There are Bronze Age Round & Bowl Barrows within 4km and a Bronze Palstave was found close by. A Roman burial site is less than 2km away. An Iron Age Greek coin has been recorded in Loddiswell, and an Iron Age settlement is nearby. There are nine Iron Age Hillforts within 8km. A fortified Medieval House is also close. Alintone (East Allington) is mentioned in the Domesday Book. So plenty going on nearby.
Don’t forget – you MUST be a Full Member of Uncover The Past to take part and purchase an Entrance Ticket unless you intend to pay Cash on the Day for an extra fee. So buy your yearly Membership Card NOW, before paying for your Dig Day Entrance Ticket. Full Membership only costs £10 per year (£5 for Juniors) and gives you plenty of benefits – see link here for more details about joining.
Payments are taken through our secure website via PayPal (you don’t need to have a PayPal account to pay). Children under 10 are free to attend, but they must be accompanied by an adult who is a Full Member.
All detectorists also need to have their own public liability insurance by being a member of the National Council for Metal Detecting NCMD (or FID). It only costs £8 per year for NCMD membership.
To see ALL the details and pay for the Entrance Ticket you need to be a Full Member to gain access to the Members Only area – click here to be taken to the Full Membership sign up page.
Don’t forget to visit our Social Community on our private Facebook Group.
It’s completely FREE to join in, and we have over 600 people that regularly take part. It’s a Private Group to help keep the spammers out – there’s a few simple questions to answer, and agree to the Group Rules (again, just to keep the Bots and Spiders out).
Finally, we’re back with a brand new name and identity, having endured the nightmare of our previous Website and Facebook Group being taken away from us. Luckily, with Sandra and myself being the Founder Members of our original Facebook Group, we remained as Admin’s and have been able to change the name to ‘Uncover The Past’.
We thought long and hard about the name change, and decided to distance ourselves to a degree, away from the geographical association of South Devon, and have chosen a more unique and evocative branding. Although our future Events and Digs will still be mainly in Devon and on the beaches of South Devon.
The eCommerce shop is now back in operation and fully functional so we can NOW offer new Membership E-Cards for Full Membership and access to the new organised Events (that are in progress now). All original Full Members of the original SDMDClub will be provided with new E-Cards free of charge (the original plastic cards, if you have one, are still valid also).
So . . onwards and upwards. We’re putting ‘the past’ behind us and we’re both really excited to ‘Uncover The Past’ with you all.
Best wishes,
Steve & Sandra