Hi guys
It's Steve
Who does metal detecting at upper grange farm ratby lane Markfield been today I found a half penny date is 1914 ,a freind on here told to keep looking as there was some thing going on at the farm as I keep finding stuff and history about the house last week I found part of a ornamented drain pipe a big air rifle pellet and some on face book forum said one thing was a pen refill I wasn't sure any way this coin today made me look at the Markfield history books we have on the village I looked at Mrs heard who lived at the farm during the war she helped soldiers find homes in Ratby lane Markfield,one coin I have as Abraham Lincoln on it date 1942.now I have 1914 I'm now wondering if this is right she was helping out in the war and letting soldiers stay at the farm.two fields away away I'm finding footings for cottages I have a belt buckle with two pieces of leather still with it .the house it self we can't find much on it ,but it's being done up by the new owners ,I have been in side it has three massive fire places down stairs one is wide at the top then as it comes down it narrows of ,the owner says he got have three to heat the house .now he told me a farmer who lived there said it was cottages ,and they did things like cream teas ,why would you need three massive fire places in a cottage ,I have looked at the windows out side below the window frame the wall is a weird shape and sticks out .down the end wall there is a square half way up which I said would be a guardrobe and there is a door way that's been blocked up .in the lawn on the yard you can't dig much there is bricks in the lawn in rows ,also there is a arch way which goes under the house and goes across the lawn into next door garden.i have followed it with my detector .if the place is called upper grange farm then that means it was a grange that's why you would have big fire places to keep it warm
So why isn't there any history on it what happend who did live there in the past.i know there was a big grange at Stanton under bardon near my village what if they kept this as part of that would mean the Lord would visit at times,they properly had monks working keeping cattle and sheep and pigs.
Steve
There's got to be some truth in it and information some were