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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.
He has found coins, metal crucifixes and even weapons, and has shared the finds with his followers. On March 29, he posted a video on YouTube with a more significant find — ancient armor.
Experts said the ancient Roman artifacts were buried in Wales about 1,750 years ago.
When the artefacts had been removed, McLennan carried out a further search with his metal detector and found a second level of the hoard, buried beneath the first. Among the finds was an early Christian silver cross. Bartholomew said, "It was tremendously exciting, especially when we noticed the silver cross lying face-downwards.
A metal detectorist scanning a forest in Poland heard his machine discovering something in the soil — then made a monumental find. Romuald Ościak, a member of the Historical and Ethnographic ...
The hoard includes almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, [8] [1] totalling 5.094 kg (11.23 lb) of gold and 1.442 kg (3.18 lb) of silver, with 3,500 cloisonné garnets [6] [9] and is the largest treasure of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver objects discovered to date, eclipsing, at least in quantity, the 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) hoard found in the Sutton Hoo ship burial in 1939.