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Roman Shipwreck Found https://coinsweekly.com/roman-shipwreck-found-in-the-adriatic-sea/ Hiker Stumbles Across Roman Hoard https://www.newsweek.com/hoard-roman-coins-hiker-stumbles-lost-ancient-site-1786875 Dutch Metal Detecting Find https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-historian-finds-medieval-treasure-using-metal-detector-2023-03-09/ Israeli Treasure Found https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/israeli-teens-discover-trove-of-1100-year-old-gold-coins
Detectorist Sues FBI
https://fortune.com/2023/02/18/fbi-civil-war-gold-dents-run-pennsylvania-lawsuit-dennis-parada-finders-keepers-detectorist/
1800 Years Old Roman Signet Ring Found
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/a-1800-year-old-roman-signet-ring-engraved-with-the-goddess-of-victory-found-in-a-field-in-somerset
Ten of the most valuable treasures ever found
https://interestingengineering.com/10-of-the-most-valuable-treasure-troves-ever-found
Finding Personal Losses
Photo by Thomas Quine (Lady’s Rolex) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The Swale Search and Recovery Metal Detecting Club I chair, offers a free search and recovery service for personal items, tractor parts, buried drain covers and the like. The most unlikely item I have been asked to find was a cricket pitch! […]
Gold!
I switched back to baiting the Anderson PMR-II with pure silver on the basis that it should cover almost the entire spectrum of desirable finds, including solid gold, while reducing the apparent sensitivity to gold plate. It worked! It wasn’t long before I was holding an Iron Age gold stater coin, which I had dug […]
Metal Detecting on the Coast: The Ultimate Guide by Edward Fletcher
Coastal detecting is quite neglected in Britain but if you know how to work beaches and foreshores it can be more consistently rewarding than searching inland sites. And not just for modern coinage and gold and silver jewellery aplenty, for with a little application you can make the same range of finds from Bronze Age […]
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