A metal detectorist found the Hallaton treasure near the village of Hallaton, England, in 2000. It contains about 2,500 coins, a silver-gilt iron cavalry helmet, the remains of brooches, and many ...

A group of amateur archaeologists in Denmark found a Viking silver hoard. The loot of 300 items includes ancient coins, silver balls, and a ring pin. The people who discovered the trove were on a ...

Amateur metal detectorist Bebe Mangeac unearthed a hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins, which were buried almost 2,000 years ago, Mangeac told What’s the Jam. Discovery Was Made with a Mid-Range Metal ...

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

A little over a year ago, a group of metal detectorists found a hoard of 21 coins in a field near Okehamption Castle in Devon, England. The find was just recently brought to light due to laws ...

A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it.

Victim identified in fatal off-road crash in Greater Cincinnati A man that was killed in an off-road single vehicle crash in Greater Cincinnati was identified by police. Coffee shop closing its ...

Two men in Cornwall, England, graduated from metal detector hobbyists to bona fide treasure hunters when they discovered a stash of nearly 2000 Roman coins buried in a farmer’s freshly plowed field.

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 cash-strapped British treasure hunter was given the perfect early Christmas present — after he unearthed a buried hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins worth an eye-popping $2 million. Amateur metal ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain has been unearthed in a field in Somerset, southwest England, by an amateur treasure hunter with a metal ...

An amateur metal detectorist unearthed a massive Roman-era hoard buried almost 2,000 years ago. The hobbyist set out with his metal detector of choice, which he described as “average and neither cheap ...