You can tell a lot about a detectorist by how they talk about farming. There is the clueless type, standing at the edge of a field of chest-high wheat saying, “Reckon he’d mind if I just nip up the tramlines?” […]
To walk across an English field is to walk over centuries of human life, but some chapters lie deeper and darker than others. Beneath the neat plough lines and rolling pasture sits the silent legacy of the Black Death, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you love the buzz of a good signal and can string a few words together without falling asleep at the keyboard, we want to hear from you. The Daily Dig is looking for fun, friendly detectorists who can write […]
