James Hyatt, age 4, was rambling around a green field with his dad on a pleasant day one May. Holding his dad’s metal detector in Hockley, a large village in the UK about 2 hours’ drive from London, ...

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 ...

TWO men have been detained by police after illegally metal detecting on monument ground in East Yorkshire. The pair had not received permission from Historic England - the government's statutory ...

Andy Matthews, who runs the Cornish Bottle Archive which keeps records of finds, says: "Bottle diggers are often vilified and ...

Metal detecting often reveals far more than expected. This film from Unearthed UK showcases curious finds hidden just beneath ...

A ‘MINI hoard’ of silver coins dating back some 400 years has been discovered by a treasure hunter in a Forest field.

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

Among the discoveries was a hoard of 179 silver pennies, likely buried on the eve of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ...

British Museum hails record-breaking year for archaeological discoveries – thanks largely to metal detectorists ...

A County Durham metal detectorist has uncovered a rare medieval silver coin now confirmed as a nationally important.