Every now and then you stumble across a site that isn’t just another half-baked review farm or SEO-stuffed wasteland. The Skill School is one of the rare ones that actually does the work. I recently used watched some of Gary’s […]
The Truth Behind Online Prize Competitions: How “Win Gold and Detectors” Raffles Are Quietly Reshaping the UK Hobby Market In recent years, online prize competitions offering gold coins, high-end metal detectors, and other luxury items have exploded across social media. […]
Every detectorist in Britain has said it at some point, usually while standing in a windswept field, soaked to the bones, holding a pouch full of ring pulls and misplaced optimism. You look across the mud, sigh dramatically, and declare […]
The History of Metal Detecting: How the Hobby Evolved and How Hoard Discoveries Shaped Modern Treasure Law Metal detecting might look like a modern hobby, but its story stretches back far beyond the days of sleek waterproof machines and wireless […]
Metal detecting in the UK might look like a simple pastime: walk around a field, wave a stick that beeps, and hope it’s Tudor gold instead of the usual buckles, buttons and bits of angry Victorian scrap. But the truth […]
Another day, another lucky sod finding gold while the rest of us dig up ring-pulls. This time it’s a detectorist on the Isle of Wight who casually pulled a 16th-century Tudor gold coin out of the ground like he was […]
In what might be the greatest medieval retrieval mission since someone fished the Domesday Book out of a cupboard, archaeologists in West Norfolk are preparing to renew the search for King John’s legendary lost treasure — the royal haul swallowed […]
Every detectorist has that one fantasy: the tone that stops you dead in your tracks. You dig a little deeper, the soil turns golden, and suddenly you’re staring at history that’s been hiding for centuries. That dream came true recently […]
Good news, diggers — it turns out we’re not just imagining it. The official stats are in, and across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the number of reported treasure finds is at an all-time high. Devon alone saw 38 treasure […]
Every detectorist dreams of that moment. The tone hits just right, you scrape back the soil, and instead of another scrap of farm iron, there it is – silver. Then another. And another. That’s exactly what happened for three detectorists […]
