Unusual finds

A small unattractive stone, a bit larger than 1 centimeter… If you walk past such a thing without a metal detector, you won’t even notice it. The rock accidentally came into the hands of scientists 20 years after it was found, and has been…

A metal detecting enthusiast was very lucky to find a bronze seal believed to have belonged to King Solomon, a few golden figures, some golden tablets (with really gold leaves) – 11 artifacts in all. He was arrested after trying to sell the…

One may collect coins one at a time, but may at once pick up a find which won’t get into a car trunk. Watch the photo report, great find.

Do you feel angry when digging up rusty iron? For some people, it’s not simply metal trash. Here, this is the very case when one man threw some stuff away, whereas another picked it up and created an amazing and expensive item.…

If extraterrestrials are looking at our Earth through a large telescope right now, most likely they are seeing back to… the early days of the colonial period in North America. The speed of light is not too fast. It will take 300 or 400…

Have you seen ancient toilets? It would be amusing to see such find in a private collection. This kind of thing can’t be put in a prominent place (or it can?). The finds which were unearthed next to the ancient toilet. The discovery…

There are only 2 types of hunting spots… You either come there first and pad your pockets with finds, or you dig the holes left by other detectorists. Want to see a super find? This kind of thing can’t be put into a pocket. And it was…

Here’s a super photo report: WWII German saboteur cache. Or is it a hoard hidden by saboteur? Five containers that preserved the finds in perfect condition – ready to be applied today. The cache was picked up by the Latvian searchers.…

Here are two unusual finds made with a metal detector… Such items can’t be shown to everybody or be put on the table (or they can?). But most important of all, how to wish anybody such a thing to be picked up? See the photos: these…

Do you know what’s Fr?nkischer Haken? It’s a bladed weapon which was popular in the early modern period. Its main purpose was to catch the blade of an antagonist’s sword. A very unusual weapon indeed. Fr?nkischer Haken…

If you dig up butter, will you understand what sort of find it is? And if you do, will you try it? Want to see a discovery – a ceremonial 2,000-year-old lump of butter? A chunk of butter weighing 10 kg was found in a peat bog in County…

Here are the photos of a truly awesome Viking hoard. It included more than 100 gold and silver items and was discovered by an ordinary detectorist using Minelab’s machine. And would you do if you picked up such a find?…

Metal detecting is like the lottery – one single treasure hunt can make you a millionaire. The only thing you need to do is go on this hunt, otherwise millions of dollars will fall to somebody else’s lot. See the TOP finds recovered…

See: here is an unusual discovery found with a metal detector – a car. Plus the story told by a treasure hunter. According to him, it was scary to dig that find. What if there had been the dead… What to do with them? Where you come to dig…

Different finds occur while hunting, but I haven’t even heard about that sort of thing. See the photo: a metal detector as a find. I wonder maybe it is a rich burial of a treasure hunter? And there exists a gruesome, this…

The only discovery in the world… Do you know many of this kind? Take a look: here’s a Scutum shield used by Roman infantryman. The item dates back to the 3rd century AD. There are such finds which, if you happen to come across them,…