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Metal Detectorist In Wales Stumbles Across A 300-Year-Old Thimble With A Romantic Message
A 300-year-old silver thimble engraved with a romantic inscription was recently unearthed by a metal detectorist in ...
A Metal Detectorist Went Digging for Fun—and Discovered a 2,000-Year-Old Trove of Ancient Artifacts
A metal detectorist named Peter Heads discovered an “exceptional” Iron Age hoard outside of Melsonby, North Yorkshire, UK.
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Cache Of 1,800-Year-Old Roman Coins Found By A Metal Detectorist Beneath A Farmer’s Field In England
What started as a routine day of metal detecting quickly turned into a momentous outing that yielded the discovery of a lifetime. While scanning a local pasture in Leicestershire, England ...
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For 3 Years, They Quietly Dug Up One of the Biggest Treasures in England
The head of the University of Durham’s archaeology department, Mr. Moore was well-known in history circles in Yorkshire, in northeast England ... s rules governing metal detecting require ...
Metal detector find may rewrite history of 7th century helmet
Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early ...
Lords of the rings: Norfolk metal detecting mates net medieval finds which fetch £20,000 at auction
The two metal detecting mates both found medieval rings which fetched thousands at auction, but their shared hobby also reunited them too. | ITV News Anglia ...
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Metal-detecting is permitted in England and Wales, as long as finders have the landowners' permission to search and they avoid protected sites, such as Scheduled Monuments (SMs) and Sites of Special ...
Rare Roman coin of Emperor Vitellius sells for £4,700
A rare 2,000-year-old Roman coin discovered by a 76-year-old farmer has been sold at auction for £4,700. Ron Walters, from Kingswinford, unearthed the gold coin depicting Emperor Aulus Vitellius while ...