Aubrey searches dozens of historical databases simultaneously — then writes your report. Here is exactly what happens from the moment you enter a location.
Type a place name, village, town, postcode, or grid reference. Aubrey works anywhere across the UK — from remote moorland to urban streets.
The location picker lets you refine your exact point on a satellite or map view. This matters — historical records are precise, and a field boundary can separate a Roman villa from an empty meadow.
Are you a metal detectorist scoping a new permission, or a local history researcher exploring your area? Your answer changes the shape of the entire report.
Detectorists get target zones, soil analysis, legal obligations and finds guidance. Historians get places of significance, period analysis and archive sources. The same deep research — presented for you specifically.
The moment Aubrey starts, the research is comprehensive. Protected monuments and their full historical records. The geology and ancient landscape beneath the surface. Historical documents and archive sources that reference your location. Field names from Victorian maps. Earthworks revealed by laser terrain analysis.
Aubrey uses advanced AI to cross-reference and interpret everything it uncovers — nearly 1,000 individual records and data points searched for a typical report, synthesised into a report that reads like it was written by a specialist who knows your location intimately.
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Identifying scheduled monuments…
Aubrey is researching your location…Your report is divided into up to 15 sections, each a standalone piece of research you can read in full or scan for the details that matter most to you.
Every find, monument and road is plotted on an interactive map. Download the full report as a PDF. Your reports are saved to your account forever — you can return to them any time.
Explore real research reports →A real Aubrey report. These are the actual findings — not examples, not approximations.
Including a deserted medieval village with earthworks still visible at the surface, a moated preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller, and a moated hall site — each one a legally protected site of national importance.
Aubrey assessed all the evidence and identified 5 specific zones of interest, three rated HIGH CONFIDENCE. The highest-rated zone centres on a deserted medieval village documented since the 11th century in the Domesday Book.
Most reports end here. Yours does not. For as long as you subscribe, Aubrey carries on researching the places in your account. When we find something new, a source that has just come to light, a detail we can now trace, a connection between two of your locations, it arrives as a Discovery, in your account and your inbox. Real finds only, always sourced. Your report is a living thing, and it keeps growing.
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