Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A father was encouraged by his children to take up his old hobby of metal detecting. On his first day using the new detector he ...

Out searching with a metal detector in his hometown, Kalle Lappinen found a historical treasure buried in an unexpected ...

A metal detectorist from Cheshire may have unearthed the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Welsh history—and was so worried about losing it, he slept in his car with the loot for three nights.

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The coins — believed to be from the 980s — were discovered in a Danish cornfield last autumn A young girl made a surprising discovery while using a metal detector in Denmark: 1,000-year-old Viking ...

A metal detectorist found Finland's largest Viking-era silver hoard in Sysmä. The discovery included thousands of coins and ...

A University of East Anglia professor who took his niece metal detecting in a Suffolk field uncovered a hoard of 18 Iron Age gold coins linked to 2 ancient British rulers. Tom Licence, Professor of ...

Professor Tom Licence from the University of East Anglia has made an incredible discovery: the largest known hoard of Iron Age gold coins, found in a field near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The 18 gold ...

The collection of Viking Age coins found by a metal detectorist scouring his hometown Lahti City Museums A metal detectorist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coins were worth £10 each during their time, around £2,000 today. (SWNS) An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed a haul of ...