Developed by archaeologists and detectorists. Built for your next permission.
Our engines bring landscape clues, historic context and your field records together. Plan where to look, record what happens and return with a better understanding of the land.
Free · No account · iPhone & Android
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Explore the evidence behind a suggestion, with uncertainty kept in view.
How the engines work together · explanatory illustration
Open FindSpot in your phone browser to get started. Adding it to your home screen is optional.
Visit findspot.uk/app/. No sign-up or subscription needed.
Open FindSpot free →iPhone: in Safari, open Share and choose Add to Home Screen.
Android: look for Install app or Add to Home screen in your browser menu.
Open your permission and load the maps and FieldGuide information you need while connected. Check what is available offline before leaving, and save regular backups of your records.
Understand a permission, work it in the field, preserve what happened and return with more context than you started with.
A slope. An old route. A water source. A pattern of finds. Our engines bring those clues and more together, using archaeological methods to help you interpret your permission and decide what deserves a closer look.
FieldGuide highlights potential and helps focus your search. It does not guarantee finds.
A plain field becomes more useful when landscape evidence and your own records are viewed together.
Terrain and water context help explain how people may have moved through and used a landscape.
Historic routes, mapping and recorded archaeology give individual signals a wider setting. See what supports an interpretation and where information is limited.
Recorded finds, observations and trails add local context for your next visit. A recorded trail shows where you travelled; it does not prove the ground was fully searched.
Suggestions guide investigation; they are not a probability of finding an object. Missing evidence remains a limitation, not proof that nothing is there.
Use FindSpot, record what happened, build local context and return with better information. Your private find records stay on your device unless you choose to export or share them.
Once a visit starts, FindSpot becomes a focused field workspace. Four clear views keep the job simple without losing the context of your session.
Return to a permission and see the context you have already built locally — previous visits, recorded trails, finds and areas worth another look.
Keep boundaries, proof, agreements and landowner details together, then turn recorded visits into clear field reports.
“The detailed field reports have helped me build a very good relationship with the council — and even secure a couple more areas to detect on.”
Lee W. — council park permission
Quick Find captures the location first. Complete the photos, material, period, depth, detector context and notes when your hands are free.
FindSpot supports responsible handling when a discovery needs more than a normal find record.
Record the position and preserve context before further disturbance.
Log separate points before the relationship between them is lost.
Keep photos, location, context and follow-up details together.
Supports responsible recording. Does not constitute legal or reporting advice.
One QR code. No accounts. Organisers can open a dig, members can record quickly and the day can be reviewed together afterwards.
Exact find locations, productive fields, permissions, GPS trails and notes stay on your device unless you choose to export, share or submit them.
Save a user-controlled FindSpot backup before changing phones or whenever your records have changed. FindSpot validates and stages a backup before restoring it, without requiring your private records to be uploaded to a FindSpot account.
No accounts. No adverts.
No subscriptions. No locked features.
Everything. Free. Always.
Free does not mean your locations or detecting records are being monetised. FindSpot is built to put useful field tools in detectorists' hands without trading away their privacy.
Yes. FindSpot is a Progressive Web App, so it works in a modern phone browser. On iPhone, open it in Safari and use Add to Home Screen. On Android, your browser will usually offer to install it.
No. There is no account, login or email required. You can start using FindSpot immediately.
Find recording and permission management work offline. Load your maps and FieldGuide information while connected, then check what is available before heading out. New landscape data needs a connection. Browser and phone settings can interrupt GPS trail recording, especially when the screen is locked.
FindSpot supports explicit, user-controlled backups and reminds you when changing records need protection. Save the backup somewhere safe, then use FindSpot's validated restore tools on your replacement device. Recovery is not automatic cloud sync.
Yes. FindSpot is free to use in full, with no adverts, subscription, locked tier or account requirement.
FieldGuide analyses terrain, water features, historic routes and recorded archaeology — including Portable Antiquities Scheme data and your own locally recorded finds — and shows the evidence behind its interpretations. It helps focus a search, but it does not guarantee finds.
FindSpot includes guided workflows for Stop & Secure, Map Scatter and Notable Find records. They help preserve context and support responsible recording, but they do not replace professional or legal advice.
Open FindSpot on your phone and start building useful context around your permission — privately, with no account.
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