Staffordshire Hoard found in Lichfield, UK The Anglo-Saxons were and are renowned for their metalwork. This is not the crude metallurgy of an uncultivated barbarian horde, but the b…
I decided to hit a local park before work. I've been itching to get out with my new Apex, but the weather has been extremely hot here lately. With some cloud cover th…
Most of the treasure hoards we have covered elsewhere on this site (namely the Hoxne, Staffordshire, and Cuerdale Hoards, among others) come from the West. But we will now turn our attention toward th…
Metal detectors aren’t just for hunting for gold. They’re also enormously useful tools for law enforcement. And yet, while most police departments have metal detectors on hand for crime sc…
Reconstruction of The Oak Chest, the arrangement of the Hoxne Hoard treasure. The Hoxne Hoard, uncovered in Britain in 1992, stands as one of the strongest arguments in favor of what a well-trained…
The biggest buried treasure ever found in the United States was, to put it mildly, nothing to sneeze at: $10 million in the form of over 1,400 gold coins. Known as the Saddle Ridge Hoard, it is shroud…
Not every gold rush changes the world like the California gold rush, the Yukon gold rush, or the Black Hills gold rush. Some simply change the history of a region and become part of the local chara…
Striker Z60 Metal Detector I was excited and humbled when Kellyco asked me to field test the Striker z60 Metal Detector. The testing plan was on that would really wring out the new metal detector, b…
Western Australia was the home of multiple gold rushes between 1885 and 1893. And the region continues to produce copious amounts of gold to this day. Gold mining is the third-largest commodity sector…
