Finds

One of the cases of finding a Viking sword in 2016 relates to the island state of Iceland. A company of wild goose hunters accidentally discovered this artifact right on the surface of the earth. Surprisingly, the object was most likely…

By chance, I was carried to the most remote point of the world. Having arrived in New Zealand, having gotten used to it a little and settled in, I immediately began to think about how I could start instrumental search here. After studying…

I previously wrote about the new Fisher F75 — collected here. A couple of weeks ago we had a thaw and it was a great time to try it out. It didn’t take me long to think that my friend and I went to a known plowing field near an…

I found everything in the forests. There were also pistols, but kept — tears! I remember Luger was found. It was found in the form of a piece of rye, as they say now — «deactivated by time». This Luger can only be used…

March 24, 1943, German pilot Non-Commissioned Officer Günther Seraphim of the 5th Fighter Wing (JG 5) discovered engine problems in his Messerschmidt Bf 109 G-2 «Yellow fighter 3». Circumstances forced him to make an emergency…

The world's largest hoard of silver was found on Friday, July 16, 1999, in a field near Spillings Farm, northwest of Slite in the northern part of the island of Gotland in Sweden. The total weight of the treasure was 67 kg of silver and 20…

Then a note flashed in a newspaper — A 16th century halberd was caught in the river. I don’t really trust journalistic tales — These guys are capable of doing weird things even in three sentences. Nevertheless, there is no smoke…

Familiar comrades hardly walked through the harvested fields this fall. Why did they lose interest in places that, although they had been knocked out, gave something after plowing? And the answer was simple: the comrades switched to…

The digger walked through one village, which has already disappeared from modern maps, waving a metal detector coil in front of him. I listened carefully to the response of the device, since our hero was hunting mainly for imperial copper.…

Want to know which metal detector is better? No matter what anyone says, what the comparisons and tests are, whether it’s criticized or praised… Look at the finds! It’s only these ones that will tell you the truth about the…

Are you willing to dig up the graves? An amateur treasure hunter unearthed a neck-ring in a field in Cambridgeshire, UK. Made of gold, weighing 730 grams. As for its type, it’s really a gigantic find that is presumably more than 3,000…

Koparis are divided into several categories — there are «military men», who dig past battlefields, there are «historians», who dig in the old days, and there are «beachers», who, Basically, all you have…

Quite recently, at one of the antiques auctions, a digger pulled down a unique cross from the times of Kievan Rus, made using cloisonne enamels technology. Gilded, with silver partitions, and two colors of enamel - a unique work of art by…

Just yesterday I caught my eye on one lot that caught my attention because the item was sold there a thousand years ago, but the price was less than $10. I decided to wait until the end of the auction to see how much this artifact would be…

Greetings to all treasure hunters! Many have chosen this difficult hobby for various reasons, but we all have one thing in common — the fact that we are bored sitting at home and are interested in adventures! And many experienced…

That feeling when he is sitting over wearing 8 rings on 5 fingers – taking ease and rejoicing at the good finds… Some commenters say that you mustn’t put on other people’s rings. But why is that? The rings now belong to you, so…