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FLOs maintain close links with local metal detecting societies and have contributed to a thaw in relationships between the detectorists and archaeologists who often previously disdained one another. Finds are photographed, often from multiple angles, and a text description is recorded. The photographs are made available under an open licence.
A metal detector is an instrument that detects the nearby presence of metal. Metal detectors are useful for finding metal objects on the surface, underground, and under water. A metal detector consists of a control box, an adjustable shaft [dubious – discuss], and a variable-shaped pickup coil. When the coil nears metal, the control box ...
In the United Kingdom metal detecting is generally permitted provided certain criteria are met and efforts are made to record finds through the Portable Antiquities Scheme. The scheme has critics however, including some archaeologists and some metal detectorists themselves. Metal detecting in England is permitted and it is a legal hobby.
This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually considered a distinctively different and separate hobby from traditional metal detecting.
This category is for archaeological hoards or individual artefacts that were found by metal detection in the United States. Pages in category "Metal detecting finds in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
This 156-troy-ounce (4.9 kg) gold nugget, known as the Mojave Nugget, was found by an individual prospector in the Southern California desert using a metal detector. Recreational gold mining and prospecting has become a popular outdoor activity several countries, including New Zealand (particularly in Otago ), Australia , South Africa , Wales ...
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Metal Rules, also known as Metal-Rules, is a heavy metal webzine established in 1995 by owner and editor EvilG. [1] Based in the province of Newfoundland , Canada, the site was founded to promote "Real Metal," which is one of the world's largest and longest-running heavy metal websites.