Archaeologists are using over a million amateur finds to study pilgrimage sites, the Black Death, and the Protestant Reformation. Much has been written about religious life in the medieval era, but ...

An adrenaline junkie needs a farmland fix. Metal detector in hand, Andy Thaxton marches the rows and pasture of countless acres, hunting coins, keys, bullets, and bells—the final testament of ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — When you go to Pere Marquette Park Beach in Muskegon, you might find a man named Dan Betz scouring the sand for buried treasures. Turns out, he's been doing that since 1973, almost ...

This week I make a quick 9 hour drive to Florida just outside of Daytona to join a large Metal Detecting event! Upon arrival we meet up with some of the best beach and relic hunters I know including ...

Jay Carroll estimates he’s found about 60 spoons in the Hudson Valley with his metal detector. Historically, people buried spoons as a superstition; stick one in the ground and your family would never ...

Two metal detectorists found an incredible hoard of about 400 Medieval coins in a famer's field. Pals Chris Evans and James Fraser discovered the 700-year-old silver coins on farm land on the Welsh ...

Metal detecting normally happens on beaches or in fields. In this video, the detector is brought into Walmart just to see what it might pick up. The experiment leads to some surprising reactions.