March 5th/6th 2012 I volunteered, along with my detecting buddy, to take part in a metal detecting survey of a known battle-site. On the first day there were 16 volunteers, the second day there were 10. The aim of the survey was to try and find anything from the 1190's battle, in particular a “Bodkin Arrowhead” which could pierce chain mail or any other type of armour.We were searching in “all metal” and expected to dig all signals, which got very tedious after a while. The area we were in was Painscastle, Powys, searching fields in the vicinity of the ruins of the castle. The scenery in that area was stunning and really hilly, the view from the castle back then must have been spectacular and any troops approaching could be seen from miles away. The search area had been set out by the two archaeologists in charge, there was a row of flags across the top of the field with a further row about 50 metres along the field and another the same distance away. We were told to pick a flag number and follow the corresponding flag across the whole field . We had been given small flags and plastic bags so any find would be bagged, left on the ground with a flag by it for the archaeologists to pick up and decide whether to keep it or dump it. It was a systematic search method, after we had completed a run down, and back up the field, the flags were re-positioned to be at ninety degrees to the first sweep.