Simon Weller, his nine-year-old daughter and 79-year-old dad made the find while metal detecting. Funeral director Jason Price "deceived thousands" of people by planting the Leasingham horse brooch.

There’s something undeniably thrilling about the hunt for hidden treasures beneath our feet. From coins with centuries of history to curious everyday relics lost to time, metal detecting captures the ...

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 ...

This video highlights some of our best underwater metal detecting finds from January. With incredibly clear water, it was ...

On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their scanners led them to an ornate 24cm dagger covered in stars and crescent ...

A metal detectorist unearthed a rare 2,000-year-old brooch - and first mistook the Roman artefact for a children’s toy. Martin Williams discovered the decorative bronze item just 15 minutes into ...

With contributions from multiple stake-holder communities in and outside academia, 'From Treasure Hunters to Citizen Scientists: Metal detecting and archaeological heritage in the Nordic region' ...

Simon Weller, 44, from Eastbourne, said he discovered a hoard of Bronze Age bun ingots while out metal detecting with his ...

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A draft law which suggests paying rewards to people who find archaeological objects in Jersey is set for debate in February 2026. Jersey is signed up to archaeological international treaties and ...