Explanation of the AJ & FD

Welcome to your Artefact Journal & Field Diary…

A (System) to Record your finds whether you are Metal Detecting, Treasure Hunting, Mudlarkin, Dump Digging or simply recording your field walking finds, with plenty of space for you to write down the sights & sounds of your journey, on finding the coins & artefacts…

Please use the drop-downs for further information, on how the simple pages work…

This A4 – Workbook, has been created & used by an active Metal Detectorist & Treasure Hunter, before being professionally published with an ISBN Number in the UK…

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This is the breakdown cost of your £ 16.95p Artefact Journal & Field Diary…

     Artefact Journal & Field Diary… £16.95p       

            Free Royal Mail Postage – 2nd class signed for…

              which includes Quality Protective Packing…

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This A4 Artefact Journal & Field Diary is a workbook which has 200 internal pages, which fold flat on the worktop, with the pages consisting of the standard black & white main pages, where you can record your recovered artefacts, with an easy-to-use and create, Ref.-No. and a C.T.C.-No.  with other simple entries like which metal detector you were using, coil, battery life, location, weather, programs and settings etc-etc…

This enables you to keep track of the items from the field to the storage area, and back again, these Artefact and Diary pages are backed up with other different coloured pages for various other different tasks…

Out of the 200 internal pages in the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, the book has eighty-four “double-dedicated dig pages” with a further 10 Single Page Artefact Journal & Field Diary listings, plus a further six “single artefact pages” each containing 30 artefact listings per page that amount to a further 180 Artefact Listings which can be entered, with location and site specifics as a stand-alone entry or connected to the Artefact Journal & Field Diary’s dig pages… 

By combining the digs, it is possible to enter well over two hundred & fifty different digs, artefacts & diary entries, without losing track of any hunt, by simply doubling up on the hunt pages… 

 

email us at muddy@ukdetectorist.com

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Welcome to the future of recording your finds…

Let me give you a brief introduction to the Artefact Journal, as this is the future of recording your finds, along with your own individual perspective being written into the Field Diary, this could be the sights and sounds you encounter along the way, or literally anything that you think off, because everything that goes into the mix of making these books, helps create a unique & personal Journey… 

If as they say, knowledge is the key to power, then the Artefact Journal & Field Diary will give you that knowledge in a reflective history at your fingertips for many years to come, as you can keep track of the artefacts from different fields, farms, dig sites rally’s, private invites etc…   

I personally will not write a book of national importance, & although you or I might not set the world alight with our literary skills, what we can offer though is a historical insight into the locality we dig, i believe that we will be writing a book of local interest & significance’s, about the highs and lows of being out in the field, as you find another artefact, whether it’s broken or whole, as your story unfolds about every item you find, it is only one more piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle…

A jigsaw so vast, that in our lifetime we will never complete the entire picture, so whether it is local permission or from further afield, at a rally, discarded items, a treasured item lost, genuine losses, or deliberately buried items, these all start to paint the picture of how our ancestors worked, played and even fought over our search sites…

I have built the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, a lot different to all the other books out there on the same subject, to make any book functional it has to be designed to work…

All of the same features of the previous versions of the Artefact Journal & Field Diary are featured here, the front & back covers are 320 high gloss, which is protected with a “wipe clean” clear acetate sheet, to keep all but the worst of them sticky fingerprints out…

One of the major changes outside has been to change the plastic coil, this has been changed back to the “wiro metal coil” Although the plastic coil worked brilliant, we felt this workbook “worked” better with the metal coil, as the metal coil closes “better by design onto itself” (-whereas the plastic coil, when attached to the pages, “appeared” to be able to slip off the paper… { only time will tell, we might revert back }-)

Although the plastic coil opens and closes quietly the metal coil is a bit noisier, but both the plastic and metal coils allow for the workbook to function as it should when in use, as a workbook the Artefact Journal & Field Diary can be opened out, with both pages facing you perfectly flat, whereas if the book was “perfectly bound” you would need to break its spine, to be able to get the book to lie flat enough to write in…

We have brought the price of the book down, not only due to the quantity that we have ordered, but after talking to the publishers, & without compromising the original idea and quality, we have reached an agreement whereas the new books can be retailed for £ 16.95p free pp

As stated to those who have purchased the books at the original price, this was an ongoing conversation with the publishers & you should have received your discount voucher by now, and it is open-ended, with no time limit on the redemption, all you need is your unique code, so either staple the letter onto the “purple” purchase page, with the code showing or write it into your existing journal on your notes page, so if you lose or mislay the letter with the code or cannot find the email you will always have the code & it can be matched at our end…

As stated, the new cost of the book is £ 16.95p, this is our optimum price, which we have been trying to achieve for four years, with no cost for PP …

Quote Fred, if you require a credit card size coin / artefact photo scale, to be sent with your new book, we have a few left, and won’t be getting any more, these fit nicely into your field wallet because of their size of a credit card, or to purchase separately the cost with postage is £2.50p…

Fred’s End Note…

Artefact Journal & Field Diary;

To make any workbook functional, it must be designed to work…

Looking into the Past is an exciting idea, so don’t let your findspots be lost to memory, write them down for prosperity…

Create your own memories by recording your metal detecting journey, just like a diary, but one that focuses on documenting your finds & recording your personal journey.

£ 12.95p – an A4 workbook for Metal Detectorists…

Plus £ 4.00p 2nd class Postage & Packing

Click on the highlighted price line to have a look at the Artefact Journal & Field Diary…

Step into a world full of endless possibilities, where the thrill of the journey matches the excitement of the destination, and every moment offers a chance to leave your mark on the canvas of life. The only boundary is how far your imagination can take you.

Email me for the PayPal details muddy@udigidig.com

There are many self-published artefact recording books on various websites, but all are, without exception, just lines on a piece of paper. Here is a completely different approach to recording your finds and your own journey on how and where they were found.

With the Artefact Journal & Field Diary, you are the author writing your own book, & creating your own story, with memories and find spots kept together on the same page, allowing you to keep an account of your Metal Detecting journey…

The purpose of any Journal / Diary is to create a reminder of the past, the Artefact Journal & Field Diary is no exception, it allows you to record your finds and enter the day’s events, with additional reminders built into the Field Diary section, creating a book of your own personal journey of Metal Detecting & saving England’s lost History…

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New book, for a new life, well, the book is not going to make me retire early, if anything, I’ve just increased my workload…

Soft Launch…

So, what is it and when is the launch ? Well, the launch date is a bit flat, as it is already out there… But when i have more than the pre-print copies, IE the first batch, then it will be officially launched, maybe on the first of May, which seems a good date, i wanted 2-3-4 as the original date, but we are just going past that with the first delivery… (- for those who don’t know 2-3-4 actually stands for 23rd April, which is St. Georges Day, whos the Patron Saint of England -)

So what does it look like… Well, the first thing, it is not a pocket version, despite part of the title being Field Diary, as it is an A4 size, with a gloss front & rear cover, and a clear Acetate Sheet, giving the front & back covers some protection from sticky fingers…

On the pre-proof book, it has a grey cover with a book-entry at the bottom of the page, in my infinite wisdom i thought Book would look and sound better, well it sounds better in your head when looking for reference numbers, but it looks terrible & naff, so that has changed back to volume, the grey front cover & rear cover is now coloured green, with the wording complementing the whole covers with a darker shade of green…

Just to clarify, the original front & back cover of the single-page Artefact Journal & Field Diary, was Orange, but as this new book is now, a double-page entry, we decided on the new colour, as this book has expanded, & been updated, with new internals, whilst the old single version is being transformed into the new format, & when released it will retain its Orange colour, as will the single A4 Folder Version, which the last few remaining pages have all but gone…

Instead of binding this book as “perfect bound” which means that it has a glued spine which is then covered in paper, which seems to be the chosen route everyone else goes down, i have chosen to bind my book in “coil bound” which allows the book to be laid flat, & as this is a workbook it does seem logical to have chosen this route… If you have ever tried writing in a book that wants to keep rising in the middle the first thing you do is break its spine, this, in turn, breaks the glue binding it all together, and soon it will start to lose its shape, and later the pages start to move & as you shuffle them back in place you are weakening them further, & before long they start to fall out, so by choosing a coil bound book, it should be able to withstand a lot more abuse than a book bound with glue, we had originally chosen to use a wiro-coil, which is a metal coil instead of plastic, but the plastic binding won the day as it can be kept clean & is less harsh on the paper, r later books, for the foreseeable future…

I have copyrighted this work from start to finish, with most of the content being started over fifty years ago, but, now this is the big but, no one has come anywhere close to my method, perhaps because it is so simple, that people try to overthink the obvious whereas this starts and ends at the obvious… it has been called a system by those that are using it, but there is no system to it, you can use as much or as little of the book as you want, but by utilizing the complete content, within a month of use, if you have been going out once a week, already a picture of the jigsaw would already have become apparent…

We chose a well-known copyright company for Authors and artisans alike, who reassured us and have kept doing so that our work is protected worldwide. I’ve had so many of my ideas taken from me. People have exploited the ideas, & me, mainly it’s because i have had a lack of funds, but this one, I’ve tried my best to keep it a well-known secret; it has been protected since the 1970s, without me knowing it. Still, now legally i have the law on my side, ok, it costs a yearly subscription, but hey, nothing is free…