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Portable Antiquities Scheme (1,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

most of England and Wales. It is primarily focused on private metal detectorists who through their hobby regularly discover artefacts that would otherwise

List of metal detecting finds (109 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually

Leekfrith torcs (914 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Leekfrith torcs are four Iron Age gold torcs found by two hobby metal detectorists in December 2016 in a field in Leekfrith, north Staffordshire, England

Bredon Hill Hoard (925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

784 debased silver Roman coins discovered in June 2011 by two metal detectorists on Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, approximately 400 metres north of Kemerton

High Melton (140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ingesting cannabis concealed in cakes during a national festival for metal detectorists called 'Coil to the Soil'. Listed buildings in High Melton UK Census

Eye, Herefordshire (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

James Vashon (1742 – 1827) was born here.[citation needed] In 2015 metal detectorists found a viking hoard worth £3 million in a field in the village but failed

Noonans Mayfair (1,526 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sold his medals in 2009, through Spink & Son. In June 2015, two metal detectorists George Powell and Layton Davies discovered a hoard of 300 Viking era

Herefordshire hoard (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Leominster, Herefordshire in June 2015. The hoard was discovered by metal detectorists George Powell and Layton Davies near Eye, Herefordshire, near Leominster

Grouville Hoard (1,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Roman coins reported in June 2012. They were discovered by metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles in a field at an undisclosed location in the

Nighthawking (468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

law-abiding metal detectorists. Hobbyist groups as The National Council for Metal Detecting or the Federation of Independent Detectorists are not to be confused

Staffordshire Moorlands Pan (607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

parish, Staffordshire (well to the south of Hadrian's Wall), by metal-detectorists, and, in 2005, was bought jointly by the Tullie House Museum in Carlisle

Bedale Hoard (738 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

discovered on 22 May 2012 in a field near Bedale, North Yorkshire, by metal detectorists, and reported via the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Following a successful

2015 in archaeology (1,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– The Temple of Baalshamin is destroyed by ISIS. June – Welsh metal detectorists discover a large Viking and Anglo-Saxon coin and jewellery hoard at Eye

2012 in archaeology (1,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

10th century AD is discovered in a field near Bedale, North Yorkshire by metal detectorists. June 25 - In the Channel Island of Jersey, the discovery of the Grouville

Ceolwulf II of Mercia (1,405 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

DOLLARS OF VIKING TREASURE THAT COULD REWRITE HISTORY STOLEN, METAL DETECTORISTS CONVICTED". Newsweek. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019. An

Wylye Hoard (382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wylye Hoard is a hoard of Bronze Age jewellery, discovered by metal detectorists in a cultivated field, north-east of the village of Wylye, Wiltshire

Walkington Hoard (197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

staters. They are a widely-scattered hoard which have been found by metal-detectorists over the course of a decade. The first portion of the hoard was discovered

Chew Valley Hoard (547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

largest finds of Norman coins in the UK. The hoard was discovered by metal detectorists Lisa Grace and Adam Staples in January 2019. The hoard consists of 2

1997 in archaeology (500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of base metal or non-metallic archaeological artefacts found by metal detectorists or other members of the public. Bryn Euryn, an archaeological site near

Shalfleet (400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Manor House, Ningwood Manor, and Hamstead Manor. In August 2009 metal detectorists searching near Shalfleet discovered an Iron Age hoard, the Shalfleet

Diggers (TV series) (563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

locations across the United States, the series follows hobbyist metal detectorists “King George” Wyant and his friend Tim “The Ringmaster” Saylor as they

Hoxne Hoard (8,500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and intact. The find helped to improve the relationship between metal detectorists and archaeologists, and influenced a change in English law regarding

Boughton Malherbe (404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

late Bronze Age was found in a field at Boughton Malherbe by two metal detectorists. The objects are of types that are unusual in southern Britain, but are

Archenfield (2,035 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

DOLLARS OF VIKING TREASURE THAT COULD REWRITE HISTORY STOLEN, METAL DETECTORISTS CONVICTED". Newsweek. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019. An

Battlefield Detectives (552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

archaeologists, forensic scientists, crowd dynamics specialists, metal-detectorists and military experts contribute to a new understanding of these fields

Corieltauvi (628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Llangoed on Anglesey in Wales; fifteen gold staters were found by metal detectorists between July 2021 and March 2022. There is little evidence that the Corieltauvi

Ipplepen (719 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and regionally important." The site was originally discovered by metal detectorists. Notable residents of the past and present include: Sir Alfred Langler

Britain's Secret Treasures (660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

registered with the scheme, many of them discovered by amateur metal detectorists. The fifty finds have been selected by Hughes and a panel of experts

Ryedale Roman Bronzes (441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an assemblage of Roman metalwork. The assemblage was found by metal detectorists James Spark and Mark Didlick in a field near Ampleforth in Ryedale, North

Milton Keynes Hoard (2,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acting quickly to preserve the site and expedite excavation. The metal detectorists who found the hoard were rewarded with 60% of the value after the authorities

2019 in archaeology (4,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conquest of England (including some mules) is found in Somerset by metal detectorists Lisa Grace and Adam Staples. 3 – A temple built between 1000 and 1260

Wessex (5,929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

REWRITE HISTORY STOLEN, METAL DETECTORISTS CONVICTED". Newsweek. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019. "Detectorists stole Viking hoard that 'rewrites

Shillington Hoard (249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. Metal detectorists Shane Pyper and Simon Leete discovered 123 aurei in October 1998. They

Avenham Park (1,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

April 2015 an unexploded military mortar bomb was discovered by metal detectorists near the park. An area close to the Old Tram Bridge was cordoned off

Towton (229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a pair of gold torcs dating to the Iron Age were discovered by metal detectorists. The 'Towton torcs' were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in 2013. The

Piddletrenthide Hoard (159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Roman hoards in Great Britain Sherwin, Adam (4 December 2017). "BBC Detectorists comedy inspires record public haul of found Treasure". i. Retrieved 12

List of hoards in Great Britain (3,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

secret "to avoid the location becoming known to unscrupulous 'nighthawk' detectorists". The Eye hoard was not declared to the Portable Antiquities Scheme,

1999 in archaeology (862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is found in a Canadian glacier. Nebra sky disk found by illegal metal detectorists in Saxony-Anhalt; if its Bronze Age dating is accurate, it is the oldest

2013 in archaeology (836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

November - The Seaton Down Hoard of 22,888 Roman coins is found by metal detectorists in Devon, England. A grave and first remains of what will be identified

Leekfrith (456 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

December 2016 four Iron Age gold torcs were found in a field, by two metal detectorists. Listed buildings in Leekfrith "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved

2016 British Academy Television Awards (128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Javone Prince – The Javone Prince Show as various (BBC Two) Toby Jones – Detectorists as Lance Slater (BBC 4) Michaela Coel – Chewing Gum as Tracey Gordon

2016 in archaeology (1,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

News. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-19. Kennedy, Maev (2017-02-28). "Detectorists strike gold 20 years after leaving field empty-handed". The Guardian

Llantilio Crossenny (915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

included Penrhos, and Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern. In January 2015 metal detectorists unearthed axe and spear heads, thought to be around 3,000 years old,

Treasure (1,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to Treasures. List of missing treasure List of treasure hunters Hoard Detectorists Treasury Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain Chinese treasure

Wissett (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with a single rapier blade, were discovered in Wissett by two metal detectorists. The hoards were found about nine metres apart. The second hoard was

Lellizzick (248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

semi-circular crop marks in two clifftop fields near Lellizzick. Metal detectorists also discovered flints and pottery from the Mesolithic period as well

Kents Hill, Monkston and Brinklow (624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of two late Bronze Age gold torcs and three gold bracelets. The metal detectorists who found the hoard were rewarded with 60% of the value after the Treasure

History of the halfpenny (4,800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prominent part of the reverse of the coin. However, in recent years metal detectorists have discovered a few halfpennies of Kings Henry I (1100–1135) and Henry

Treasure trove (8,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to be treasure by the South Staffordshire coroner. In 2019 two metal detectorists, Lisa Grace and Adam Staples, discovered a hoard of 2,528 silver coins

Battle of Cheriton (1,154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

James (1 September 2019). "Challenges of Working with Legacy Data from Detectorists : A Case Study in the Fabrication of Evidence". Fields of Conflict. Retrieved

Pensnett (861 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

till 1920 with many Martini–Henry bullets being found by local metal detectorists. The name Pensnett is from the Celtic 'pen', for hill and the Anglo-Saxon

Leominster (1,553 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

DOLLARS OF VIKING TREASURE THAT COULD REWRITE HISTORY STOLEN, METAL DETECTORISTS CONVICTED". Newsweek. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019. An

Rockbeare (1,282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

along with locally made goods. The site was first discovered by metal detectorists Jim Wills and Dennis Hewings who reported their finds to archaeologist

Leahill Turret, Hadrian's Wall (653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail and Hadrian's Cycleway. Metal detectorists have found a number of Roman coins in the area and a skeleton was uncovered

Ampleforth (1,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bronzes, a ritual Roman metalwork assemblage, was found by two metal detectorists in a field near Ampleforth in May 2020. Ampleforth is mentioned in the

Votive offering (2,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

present or former wetlands by construction workers, peat diggers, metal-detectorists, members of the public and archaeologists. A saying by Diogenes of Sinope

Cridling Stubbs Hoard (339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

second hoard of 4th-century coinage from this parish, found by metal detectorists in 2011, is named as Womersley II. Historic England. "Monument Number

List of Pirates of the Caribbean characters (17,928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

decided to not reprise his role as Ragetti to focus in his TV series Detectorists and Arenberg confirmed he was not joining the filming of Dead Men Tell

Shapwick Hoard (737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

discovered by cousins Kevin and Martin Elliott, who were amateur metal detectorists, in a field at Shapwick. Excavation of the site found that it had been

Vale of York Hoard (1,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

July 2007). "Most important Viking Treasure in 150 years found by metal detectorists in North Yorkshire". Portable Antiquities Scheme. Archived from the original

Privy digging (3,131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

easy to miss metal objects. Some privy diggers are metal detectorists and some metal detectorists are also privy diggers, dump diggers and so on. However

Celtic currency of Britain (5,320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

provenances have been produced to hide the source of coins looted by metal detectorists such as the mass looting of the Wanborough Temple site. The first currency

Kilmaurs Castle (1,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jocksthorn farm at a point east of both Tour House and Jock's Thorn. Metal detectorists have found a number of medieval coins in this area amongst what may be

Archaeology (13,774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

19th-century ship wreck, and service cable location during evaluation. Metal detectorists have also contributed to archaeology where they have made detailed records

Towton torcs (205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

England, dating from the later Iron Age. The torcs were found by metal detectorists in a stream in 2010 and 2011. Both torcs are gold alloys and formed from

History of Herefordshire (2,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dollars of Viking Treasure That Could Rewrite History Stolen, Metal Detectorists Convicted". Newsweek. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2019. An

Mudlark (1,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

then chased, to the amusement of the onlookers. More recently, metal-detectorists and other individuals searching the foreshore for historic artefacts

Neil Reidman (958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baron of Open All Hours), and All About Me with Jasper Carrot. Also 'The Detectorists' (starring Mackenzie Crook of 'Pirates of the Caribbean', the ITV hit

Time Team series 14 (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

4 March 2007 (2007-03-04) The team arrive at a field outside Cheshire where metal detectorists have made several valuable finds in the past, hinting the site was once

Wylye (1,605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A collection of Bronze Age jewellery found near the village by metal detectorists in 2012, known as the Wylye Hoard, is held by Salisbury Museum. Bilbury

Drumanagh (1,189 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

excavation, but numerous artefacts have been dug up by illegal metal detectorists. One such collector attempted to sell a trove of Roman coins and ornaments

Penrith and Eden Museum (723 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

also traded as a jeweller and gunsmith. Several items, found by metal detectorists, were acquired by the museum in February 2020 through the Portable Antiquities

Eye, Moreton and Ashton (3,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Broad was a farmer and two jobbing gardeners. In 2019, three metal detectorists and a coin dealer were convicted at Worcester Crown Court of "theft,

History of Wiltshire (3,154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entrenchments, and has also a ditch north of the rampart. In April 2022, metal detectorists announced the discovery of two 4000 year-old Bronze Age axe heads on

Wickham Market Hoard (1,237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Green, on whose farm in Dallinghoo the hoard was found, and the metal detectorists, Michael Darke and Keith Lewis, who found the hoard (a half share going

Chew Valley (4,552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2009. "Detectorists find huge Chew Valley Norman coin hoard". BBC News. 28 August 2019. Retrieved

Gullgubber (1,842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

southern Scandinavia likely reflects the relative prevalence of metal detectorists. Rundqvist, p. 119. Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, Myths and Symbols

Norton Disney (1,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lincolnshire boundary a mounted Iron Age deity was discovered in 1989 by metal detectorists. This deity, aka the “Norton Disney rider god” was subsequently bought

Kilcrea Friary (1,588 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

there have been some reported illegal excavations in the graveyard by detectorists. Kilcrea Friary consists of a series of buildings located around a main

Time Team series 9 (261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out more about the people who lived and died here. Unusually, metal detectorists are called in to find non-ferrous metals, to complement Geophysics' magnetometer

Bad Education (TV series) (2,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

confirms Bad Education Movie". British Comedy Guide. "Bad Education and Detectorists get specials as BBC announces comedy investment". The Independent. 12

St Mary's Buttsbury (949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

walls of the Nave & Chancel and can be seen from the exterior, metal detectorists from Havering have found Roman coins in the fields which surround the

Harrogate (8,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and named after the nearby Crimple Valley and beck. In 2007, two metal detectorists found the Harrogate hoard, a 10th-century Viking treasure hoard, near

Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles (1,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"agricultural activities or peat-cutting". In the 21st century, metal detectorists have become important, for example with the important Shropshire bulla

Anglo-Saxon paganism (14,998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

political purpose as a religious one. Metalwork items discovered by metal detectorists have also contributed to the interpretation of Anglo-Saxon paganism.

Staffordshire Hoard (4,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The finds were made in November 2012 when archaeologists and metal detectorists from Archaeology Warwickshire, working for Staffordshire County Council

History of Jersey (13,468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Trinity, and Le Câtillon, in Grouville (1957). In June 2012, two metal detectorists announced that they had uncovered what could be Europe's largest hoard

Disturbance (archaeology) (950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

on a site may damage archaeology in a number of ways. Amateur metal detectorists may disturb or remove artifacts. Travel over the ground surface, whether

Bowerchalke (3,196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

silver coins and rings from the 4th century were discovered by metal detectorists near Bowerchalke in the 20th and 21st centuries. They were used by the

Nebra sky disc (6,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mario Renner while they were treasure-hunting with a metal detector. The detectorists were operating without a license and knew their activity constituted

Geoffroi de Charny (3,341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seemed to be no explanation for this dichotomy, until 2009 when metal detectorists exploring a field in Machy, the next-door village to Lirey, turned up

Kilmaurs Place (5,729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which occupied the site of this old castle of the Cunninghams. Metal detectorists have found medieval coins in this area amongst old unhewn building or

Finders Keepers (British TV series) (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the United Kingdom on Channel 5 from 17 January 2024. Amateur metal detectorists in Somerset discover a hoard of buried Saxon treasure, which they think

Britain's Most Historic Towns (540 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In this episode she takes part in a Viking battle; meets the metal detectorists behind one of Britain's greatest archaeological finds and handles a 1000

The Long Shadow (TV series) (861 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Retrieved 8 August 2023. Cremona, Patrick (8 August 2023). "Line of Duty and Detectorists stars cast in ITV drama The Long Shadow". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 August

Lands of Tour and Kirkland (2,825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

although the name 'Jock's Thorn' appears to be linked with it. Metal detectorists have found a number of medieval coins in this area amongst what may be

List of archaeological sites in Thurrock (1,862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and fieldwork, 1984–2000) Large numbers of Saxon coins found by metal detectorists at a "productive site" (1980s and 90s) Bronze Age cremation burials (1993)

Barony and Castle of Giffen (7,455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the high ground on which the castle and hamlet of Giffen stood. Metal detectorists found a number of musket-balls in this area. William Patrick Esq. of

List of Roman hoards in Great Britain (3,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Medieval Archaeology. 42: 88–93. doi:10.1080/00766097.1998.11735619. "Detectorists strike gold as British Museum reveals record haul". The Guardian. 4 December

The Horne Section (2,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jong Un Takes the Train to China, Smartphone Users, Unwell on Race Day, Detectorists, Your Trousers are Boiling, Thick & Creamy (key changes), Livin' on a