A new exhibition of "phenomenal" finds by a metal detecting husband and wife team has opened at a museum. Lorraine Stanley ...

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewelry using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway’s “gold find of the ...

An adrenaline junkie needs a farmland fix. Metal detector in hand, Andy Thaxton marches the rows and pasture of countless acres, hunting coins, keys, bullets, and bells—the final testament of ...

Yankee Girl Finds Confederate Relics Metal Detecting is the hunt for buried treasure; we take one of our History Seekers genealogy researchers to find her first relics from 1864. This was from a time ...

As Christina McCree turns the pages of a book that documents her successful metal detecting searches over the years, she can’t help but smile. Her “Book of Smiles” holds a closeup photograph of each ...

(RNS) — Archaeologists hope to capitalize on a local fad for metal detecting to examine pilgrimage and personal piety in areas where the written record is thin. (RNS) — Much has been written about ...

EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a ...

MAINE — A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a ...

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