Julian Even-hart a local historical researcher, metal detectorist, archaeologist and published author, is hopefully going to be able to tell us more about the history of the farm through a series of metal detection surveys. He’s already carried out a small survey of where the village dump used to be. “It was most interesting..I found fragments of Victorian glassware some from Wrights Lemonade who used to be at Walkern, a Ginger Beer bottle, a whetsone for sharpening shears and sickle blades, two corroded sickle blades, what is probably a Donkey shoe and then a 0.50 callibre bullet, a broken 0.50 shell case and then another complete case. This is fascinating as these bullets have two possibilities either from the 1943 crash at Bennington of a P47 Thunderbolt or from the 1944 B17 bomber that crashed down at Walkern.”
