But while metal detecting is a well-established hobby with thousands of dedicated adherents, it can be difficult to get started. Though easy to use, some metal detectors are made to be easy enough ...

“The destruction of so many high-status objects, evident in this hoard, is also of a scale rarely seen in Iron Age Britain ...

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.

Metal detecting is a fun pastime, even when all you can find is a little bit of peace and a whole lot of pop tabs. [Huygens Optics] has a VLF-based metal detector that offers much more feedback ...