A metal detectorist has uncovered a Viking Age silver ingot on the Isle of Man. John Smart discovered the 1,000-year-old, finger-sized sliver of metal while exploring the island, which sits in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and England, according to a statement from Manx National Heritage. Smart, who has been a metal detectorist for […]
In a village of eastern Poland, Paweł Małkowicz organized a metal-detecting rally. Before the event, Małkowicz did a preliminary search and left some extra metal items for participants to discover. But one participant found something unexpected — and surprisingly ancient. Krzysztof Gajos attended the metal-detecting rally in Matcze last August, the Lublin Provincial Conservator of […]
A veteran metal detectorist hit the jackpot when he turned up late to a group dig only to stumble across the largest gold nugget ever found in England after just 20 minutes of searching. Richard Brock, 67, travelled three-and-a-half hours from his home in Somerset in May 2023 to join an organised expedition on farmland […]
A metal detectorist in Poland searched the forest floor for military artifacts from World War I or World War II. He swept the device above the ground, working his way through the trees. Eventually, he decided to call it a day. As Piotr Gorlach walked to his car, a final beep from his metal detector […]
Dressed in a red windbreaker and brown beanie, Lars Nielsen was out for a walk on a crisp spring day. As he went, he swept his metal detector over the rocky soil of Emmerlev, a small town in southern Denmark. The device beeped. Nielsen knelt down and dug. Buried in the dirt, he found a […]
While searching a field in Norway, a metal detectorists uncovered a golden rope-like object. He immediately recognized it as something special — and archaeologists agreed. Ingar Karlsen was scanning the plowed field in Inderøy with a metal detector when he stumbled on the metallic artifact, according to a Dec. 15 news release from Trøndelag County […]