A man who discovered Roman silver coins in a field realized he had stumbled upon something bigger when his metal detector kept signaling.

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 ...

A beach treasure hunt compares sand sifting and metal detecting techniques to discover hidden gold and explore different ways ...

Having only ever found a silver coin while metal detecting, Idris Thomas was shocked to strike gold.

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 ...

A metal detector can help you locate lost items on the beach or treasures at historical sites, but there are some rules you ...

Between 100 and 150 pieces of Shaler’s coal mining history will displayed in November at the Shaler North Hills Library. Members of the North Pittsburgh Past Finders metal detecting club have found ...

A rookie metal detectorist recently experienced an enormous amount of beginner’s luck when he discovered several 2,500-year-old artifacts in a Danish bog. Claus Falsby of Denmark grabbed a metal ...

Tara Davis-Woodhall is an assistant track coach at Kansas State University. She’s also an Olympic gold medalist.

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 ...

Early one Sunday morning, a metal detector hobbyist from Massachusetts traveled to New Hampshire to help find a stranger’s lost wedding ring. And he located it—just a day after it went missing—but ...

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