Kevin Minto expected another corroded bronze coin when his metal detector beeped in a field in Somerset, south England.

There’s something undeniably thrilling about the hunt for hidden treasures beneath our feet. From coins with centuries of history to curious everyday relics lost to time, metal detecting captures the ...

A metal detectorist is enjoying a huge windfall after finding a rare gold and diamond ring dating from the late 16th or early ...

A METAL detectorist has paid off his mortgage after finding a huge treasure stash worth more than £78,000. The hoard included ...

A pastime in a farmer’s field led to the discovery of Norman-era coins valued at more than $5 million. By Ali Watkins The group huddled together in the farmer’s field, staring at the dozen or so ...

I feel like every child dreams of uncovering buried treasure at some point in their lives. For me, as a child who spent a lot of time in Florida growing up, I was always digging for pirate booty.

Three Bronze Age arm rings have been discovered by metal detectorists at a site where a new electricity substation could be ...

A man searching a field in Poland unearthed a shiny medieval artifact, a museum said. Photos show the unique and well-preserved gold coin. Photo from the Museum of the History of the Kamień Land While ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tokugawa government began minting Tenpō Tsūhō coins in 1835. A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries’ old coin while ...

An amateur metal detectorist unearthed a massive Roman-era hoard buried almost 2,000 years ago. The hobbyist set out with his metal detector of choice, which he described as “average and neither cheap ...

As Christina McCree turns the pages of a book that documents her successful metal detecting searches over the years, she can’t help but smile. Her “Book of Smiles” holds a closeup photograph of each ...