Country diary: dazzled by the common's treasure

Biggleswade Common, Bedfordshire: Sunseeking yellow buttercups add to the floral riches of the meadowsA generous-hearted fellow country diarist, a native of Biggleswade, tipped me off at the beginning of the month to the whereabouts of treasure on the county's largest common. Biggleswade Common has form: at the turn of the millennium, a detectorist unearthed a gold Saxon coin there that fetched a third of a million pounds at auction. Dawn Lawrence sent me in search of more riches, with precise instructions that took me across the road from the bulk of the common to an offshoot of the meadows that I had not even realised was open public land. Continue reading...