There’s something weirdly satisfying about watching someone wave a metal detector around and actually find something other than an old soda tab. Some folks dig up rusty nails. Others? Ancient coins, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) - They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and that rings true for a couple who started a metal detecting non profit 10 years ago. Casey and Mindy Oberreuter created ...

Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

A metal detectorist has pleaded guilty after admitting that some of his “historic” discoveries were not actually so, per the BBC. Between September 2019 and August 2023, a series of finds were ...

Metal detecting hobbyist John Briare discovered an active 19th-century Civil War cannonball on Feb. 7 in North Myrtle Beach after visiting his family from ...

There's often history just beneath your feet, waiting to be discovered. A long-forgotten button, an antique coin, or even a remnant from one of the wars that shaped our country. Trying to unearth ...

When Ellie Verrecchia pulled up in her car for her first metal detecting dig in the Cornish countryside, she quickly discovered she was the only woman. “I didn’t know how to hold my gear and no one ...