Bronze age relic

The first indication that there might be a sign of Archaeological interest is discovered  during the ploughing match on Broon's field. One of the competitors ploughs up a copper bangle. Who will recover it? Jinks, maybe, and he gives it to Miss Wailey, who will show it off to some amateur archaeologist, or the reporter girl, Wendy, who sees a strange design she remembers from an article in a Sunday paper. That will start the metal detector search and lead to Broon's field becoming an archaeological dig. The question is, How long can they delay Broon? That needs research.

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There are no mining villages in Scotland these days, sorry, there is one at Dalmally, where they are opening a gold mine but Cairndhu is a coal mining village that has a long history. That will come out as the archaeologists dig and they can set up a kind of museum. It won't be anything elaborate but it will give me the opportunity to add background to the various characters. We know Miss Kirkwood had a fiance killed in the last days of WW1 as it forms the basis of A Land Fit for Heroes, but what about the others and what was going on in the past? What happened in 1820 when the workers revolt spread from Peterloo and people took up arms? A story within a story and room for all kinds of drama.

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These are just notes and not necessarily in the sequence they will be used in the sequel to Best in Show. They make up the incidents that will might be used in the book. The latest is that someone has seen a man, using a metal detector has found a cache of old coins. Just the thing Jinks would want to try on Broon's field. There are two options, Jinks finds nothing but old cans and knives lost on picnics or he finds 'something' that could be ancient and the archaeologists insist on digging. Will it help Broon by turning the earth over, or hinder him because he can't plant tatties. It could be that Jinks found nothing but didn't want people to know and boasted a bit. Wendy, the journalist will get involved, so it had better not be a hoax. Would Jinks care?

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