Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

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 dug up a medieval gold coin from the 13th century. The coin has sold at ...

Sætre and Sørlie did everything correctly when they first found 19 silver coins in early April, earning praise from the ...

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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 ...

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 couple of metal detectorists discovered Viking treasure when they came across a cache of ancient coins.

EMBDEN, M.E. (AP) - A North Carolina man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte was on a ...

It's now a year since a metal detectorist's celebration after he discovered a hoard of Elizabethan coins and other treasure ...

EMBDEN, Maine — A North Carolina man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. The Bangor Daily News reports that Shane ...

17-year-old Reece Pickering found one of just three surviving silver pennies dated to Harold II's reign. Courtesy of Hansons This summer, two British teenagers wielding metal detectors separately ...

EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a ...