Digging for Barton: restoration finds on display in Tudor holiday house
21st April 2026Partly inspired by the popular TV show Digging for Britain’ and similar archaeology programmes, but driven mainly by my obsession to find and keep all my home’s historic material, I have spent the last 20 years building up a small finds collection. Sifting through restoration debris and any disturbance of the garden of this Tudor farmhouse in the Warwickshire hamlet of Barton, I have put aside literally everything that might be interesting. Now cleaned and sorted, the items – ranging from pottery shards to lost toys – are in a display in the house, which is now available for holiday…
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