Some people can scour the seaside for hours looking for shells and other treasures of the sea. But much more than horseshoe crabs, jellyfish and oysters wash up on the shoreline. The ocean can provide ...

Uncovering a precious artefact from the ground can bring metal detectorists tantalisingly close to a historical past. How can these finds contribute to our understanding of earlier times? Alex Hunt of ...

In this emotional and historically significant video, we recover artifacts from the crash site of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s final flight on October 20, 1977. Using metal detecting techniques, we uncover ...

Gary Drayton has decided to pass on helpful hints for amateur metal detectors. Pic credit: @crossbonesnation/YouTube Gary Drayton from The Curse of Oak Island has arrived on YouTube, where he hopes to ...

Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

This article was updated and checked for accuracy in April 2024. It was originally published in 2021. Believe it or not, metal detection is actually possible on Android phones. In fact, the first ...