Every week WHRADA members have the opportunity to dig on Club sites. Everyone is provided with OS style maps, and it is important to our good relationship with our land owners that everyone is confident that they are detecting in the right place. In addition good map reading helps when recording finds for schemes like PAS or if lucky enough a report of Treasure to the Coroner.

To that end here are some map reading tips, courtesy of The Ordnance Survey.

Map Reading made easy (Adobe Reader required)

Pages 3-5 explains Grid References

Advanced Map Reading (Adobe Reader required)

This gives tips on working out were you are, in relation to the map.