Metal detecting isn’t always calm fields and easy digs. This video shows a hunt in challenging conditions where only the determined keep going. The ground fights back, the weather doesn’t help, and ...

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 ...

A few days before Christmas several years ago, David Moss and Tom Taylor headed out with the metal detectors to do some exploring in Wales. The duo was in a field in Caerhun Community, Conwy near a ...

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewelry using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway’s “gold find of the ...

Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

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 ...

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SCITUATE, MASS. (WHDH) - A good Samaritan who helps people with missing jewelry used his metal detector to locate a mother of three’s wedding ring that went missing while she was playing on a beach in ...

(RNS) — Archaeologists hope to capitalize on a local fad for metal detecting to examine pilgrimage and personal piety in areas where the written record is thin. (RNS) — Much has been written about ...

Thanks to metal detectorists, there's been a record-breaking number of archeological finds and treasure discoveries in ...

A man using a metal detector found a box of explosives buried in a forest on the North Shore of Massachusetts on Thursday, authorities said. Officers were called to a state-owned forest in Rowley near ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal ...