Two friends discover Viking treasure - coins dating back 1,000 years that reveal trade routes and secrets of the Irish Sea.

There’s something weirdly satisfying about watching someone wave a metal detector around and actually find something other than an old soda tab. Some folks dig up rusty nails. Others? Ancient coins, ...

Riley Schochler, left, learns about a metal detector from Bob Richardson during the East Texas Treasure Show at the Longview Exhibit Center Saturday, October 25, 2025. (Jordan Green/Longview ...

In his 50 years of scouring the Isle of Man with a metal detector in hand, Ronald Clucas had never found anything like it: eight strands of gold looped neatly together. Months on from its discovery in ...

We’ve found coins, relics, and scrap before but never this. Buried inside ordinary-looking rocks was something extraordinary: ...

In a statement published on May 12, the City of Leeds in the U.K. said the Saxon-era pendant was uncovered in a local field. It dates back over 1,200 years and was found by a metal detectorist last ...

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (WCBS/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man was reunited with his long-lost ring 56 years after losing it thanks to a fortunate find by an amateur treasure hunter. Dave Orlowski spends his ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a hoard of early medieval treasures on the banks of an inlet in northern Germany, all thanks to a metal detectorist. The State Archaeology Department of ...

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WECT) - The City of Southport is reminding the public of treasure-hunting rules on historic sites. According to the city, metal detecting, treasure hunting, and unauthorized digging ...

The Treasure Coast of Florida includes Indian River County, Martin County and St. Lucie County. The Treasure Coast of Florida got its name in part because of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet maritime ...

The man initially found the 2,000-year-old hoard with a metal detector in 2017 near the village of Borsum in the Hildesheim district of Lower Saxony, northwest Germany. However, he didn't have a ...

PITTSFIELD — Henry Cadorette was wading waist-deep near the Onota Lake shoreline, in a spot he thought may have once been a beach, when his metal detector picked up something unusual. A longtime ...