medieval treasure

Medieval treasure in a button box.

A small gold plate belonging to a Polish family Sielscy from the Swedish Malmoe turned out to be an archaeological sensation. According to the researchers, it is probably a souvenir from the funeral of the Danish King Harald Bluetooth on the island of Wolin, dated to c. 986 AD. The discovery was made by 11…

Derek Ingram metal detectorist

Farewell Derek John Ingram

Today we are going to pay our last respects to Derek John Ingram who sadly passed away on the 20th November 2014 age 83. Derek served an engineering apprenticeship at IMI Lightning Zip Fasteners. Joined the RAF at the age of 21 for his compulsory national service, where he flew many different types of planes.…

Nigel Ingram in Fake Britain.

Regton On BBC

This morning we had an opportunity to see Regton’s Managing Director Nigel Ingram on BBC’s Fake Britain. If you missed the programme this morning you can catch up on BBC iPlayer In this episode Nigel is testing counterfeit Garrett security scanners which infiltrated UK market. He is also talking about very popular among metal detectorists,…