Is it legal to collect at Balsdean deserted downland hamlet?

Permission required. The land is still farmed from the modern Balsdean Farm and scheduling of the hamlet is not mentioned; landowner consent is required, with Treasure Act 1996 reporting and PAS recording, and keep off the SSSI and barrows.

What can you find at Balsdean deserted downland hamlet?

medieval and later coins, buttons, buckles, farm hardware, shell fragments; an urn of over a thousand 3rd century Roman copper coins was dug up here in 1798

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Balsdean deserted downland hamlet

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Nails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

medieval hamlet to WWII evacuation

Remote downland hamlet on record from about 1100, made up of Norton and Balsdean farms, with a chapel later used as a barn. Its last residents were evacuated in the Second World War and the manor, cottages and chapel were shelled as artillery targets and never rebuilt.View source →