Bill Wyman’s metal detecting hobby uncovered 200 Roman coins and a lost farmstead

Bill Wyman, best known as the original bassist of the Rolling Stones, turned an accidental discovery on his Suffolk property into a serious pursuit of archaeology. After workers digging at his country home unearthed a medieval jug, he took up metal detecting to explore the land further. Over time, his searches revealed more than 200 Roman coins and the remains of a previously unknown Roman farmstead, findings that were recorded with the Suffolk Heritage Explorer and documented on his own archaeology pages. Read on to know more about it here:From a medieval jug to a new hobbyThe story began not with a grand plan but with routine work on Wyman’s estate in Suffolk, in eastern England.Workers excavating on the property came across a medieval jug, an object that immediately suggested the land had been used and inhabited long before modern times. That single find sparked Wyman’s curiosity about what else might lie beneath the surface.Rather than simply pocketing the jug and moving on, Wyman decided to investigate more systematically. He took up metal detecting, a hobby that is popular in the UK but also tightly regulated, especially on land with known or suspected archaeological signific...