Published by The Star, Thursday 21st June 2012. A PUB landlady left a strange piece of metal near her cooker for three weeks – before discovering it was an unexploded wartime bomb. Denise Kilner’s pub inSheffieldhad to be sealed off and evacuated by Army bomb disposal officers. She found the nine-inch tube – which she thought…
Published by Stars and Stripes, written by John Vandiver, Saturday 26th May 2012. GRAFENAU, Germany— It was an unusual rendezvous: a small group of Americans, a couple of German homicide detectives and a small bag of bone fragments. Deep in the woods, about 20 miles southwest of Stuttgart, Kolby Lanham, a Spangdahlem airman, handed over the…
Published by Hastings Observer, Saturday 9th June 2012 TAKING her new metal detector out for the first time, Sarah Ingram unearthed more than she bargained for. The 31-year-old jeweller, fromSt Helens Road, had not been looking long when she stumbled across an interesting-looking, but heavily corroded piece of metal. An arduous search revealed it to…
Published by The Ridgefield Press.com, written by Macklin Reid, Sunday 10th June 2012. Hands dirty, using a metal detector and a garden shovel in the dark earth, Garrett Silliman searched a Main Street building site for artifacts left from the Battle of Ridgefield — where his great, great, great, great, great-grandfather had been one of…
One of the greatest finds from the 16th Century in over 100 years has been found using the Deus. Below are just two links to articles covering the story. The first link is to a video from a Danish television channel covering the story. NB Please note that the video is in Danish. The second link is to…
Published by BBC News Jersey, Monday 6th February, 2012 A number of Iron Age coins including some thought to be Roman have been found in a field in Jersey by two men using metal detectors. Reg Mead and Richard Miles started searching for the coins 30 years ago. Their search began after hearing stories about…
Published by This is Surrey Today, Gatwick & Horley Mirror, Friday 3rd February , 2012. AN INQUEST will be held later this month into the discovery of a hoard of silver Roman coins near Charlwood. Members of the Weald and Downland Metal Detecting Club unearthed the denarii coins from farmland a year ago near Norwood…
Published by BBC News, Wednesday 1st February 2012. A York museum has raised enough money to keep one of two gold bracelets dating back over 2,000 years. The two solid gold Iron Age torcs were discovered by metal detector enthusiasts in a stream near Towton,North Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Museum raised £25,000 in public donations to…
Published by BBC News Us & Canada, Thursday 2nd February, 2012. Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research says a wreck sitting 50 miles (80km) off the US Atlantic coast is the SS Port Nicholson, sunk in 1942. The Port Nicholson, a British merchant ship, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in an attack that killed…
Published by Culture Map, Written by Whitney Radley, Sunday 29th January 2012. In April 2010, three unsuspecting prospectors were metal detecting in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia when their hand-held machine went nuts. Was it gold ore? Was it an old aluminum can? Neither: It was the Ausrox Gold Nugget. A monster nugget. One…