June 2012 - Regton Metal Detectors

Article | Sheffield landlady had bomb in her pub for three weeks

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Published by The Star, Thursday 21^st June 2012.

A PUB landlady left a strange piece of metal near her cooker for three weeks – before discovering it was an unexploded wartime bomb.

Denise Kilner’s pub inSheffieldhad to be sealed off and evacuated by Army bomb disposal officers.

She found the nine-inch tube – which she thought was an old battery – and took it back to the Cross Scythes in Norton Lees after starting metal detecting as a hobby.

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Article | Metal detector hobbyists find possible WWII remains

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Published by Stars and Stripes, written by John Vandiver, Saturday 26^th May 2012.

GRAFENAU, Germany— It was an unusual rendezvous: a small group of Americans, a couple of German homicide detectives and a small bag of bone fragments.

Deep in the woods, about 20 miles southwest of Stuttgart, Kolby Lanham, a Spangdahlem airman, handed over the bone fragments he’d found.

The German police wanted first to rule out a crime scene. Then, their job was to determine whether the bones were human and whether they dated back to World War II, because they were found at what is believed to be a B-24 crash site. The police noted the small sample size, as they looked over the few pieces of bone.

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Article | Sarah struck bronze with her jubilee find

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Published by Hastings Observer, Saturday 9^th June 2012

TAKING her new metal detector out for the first time, Sarah Ingram unearthed more than she bargained for.

The 31-year-old jeweller, fromSt Helens Road, had not been looking long when she stumbled across an interesting-looking, but heavily corroded piece of metal.

An arduous search revealed it to be a commemorative medallion celebrating QueenVictoria’s Diamond Jubilee issued more than 100 years ago.

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Article | Archeologist unearths remnants of 1777 battle

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Published by The Ridgefield Press.com, written by Macklin Reid, Sunday 10^th June 2012.

Hands dirty, using a metal detector and a garden shovel in the dark earth, Garrett Silliman searched a Main Street building site for artifacts left from the Battle of Ridgefield — where his great, great, great, great, great-grandfather had been one of the commanders of colonial forces fighting the British.

“Gold Selleck Silliman,” he said. “He went by Selleck.”

Mr. Silliman, of Georgia-based Terminus Archeological Research, conducted five days of systematic investigation at593 Main Street, a one-acre property with an empty 1950s house on it — and a recent approval for 16 units under the state’s affordable housing law, 8-30g.

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Another Great Treasure Find with the Deus

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One of the greatest finds from the 16th Century in over 100 years has been found using the Deus. Below are just two links to articles covering the story. The first link is to a video from a Danish television channel covering the story. NB Please note that the video is in Danish.

The second link is to an english translation of an article covering the story from the same news channel.

1. Published by TV2 east, Thursday 7th June 2012

2. Published by TV2East, written by Jakob Olling, Friday 8^th June 2012

A huge silver treasure from the 1500s appeared on Moen. It is the greatest treasure finds from the period in almost 100 years. Fortune hunter was a 28-year-old carpenter from Vordingborg, which was equipped with a metal detector.

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Video | Jersey pair find more than 60 Iron Age coins

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Published by BBC News Jersey, Monday 6^th February, 2012

A number of Iron Age coins including some thought to be Roman have been found in a field in Jersey by two men using metal detectors.

Reg Mead and Richard Miles started searching for the coins 30 years ago.

Their search began after hearing stories about a pot of coins unearthed when a hedgerow was being removed.

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Article | Inquest will decide fate of coins

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Published by This is Surrey Today, Gatwick & Horley Mirror, Friday 3^rd February , 2012.

AN INQUEST will be held later this month into the discovery of a hoard of silver Roman coins near Charlwood.

Members of the Weald and Downland Metal Detecting Club unearthed the denarii coins from farmland a year ago near Norwood Hill, which they had permission to search.

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Article | Iron Age gold bracelet to stay at Yorkshire Museum

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Published by BBC News, Wednesday 1^st February 2012.

A York museum has raised enough money to keep one of two gold bracelets dating back over 2,000 years.

The two solid gold Iron Age torcs were discovered by metal detector enthusiasts in a stream near Towton,North Yorkshire.

The Yorkshire Museum raised £25,000 in public donations to buy one of the bracelets.

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Article | A Maine treasure hunter says he has discovered a WWII-era shipwreck filled with platinum, now worth $3bn (£1.9bn).

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Published by BBC News Us & Canada, Thursday 2^nd February, 2012.

Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research says a wreck sitting 50 miles (80km) off the US Atlantic coast is the SS Port Nicholson, sunk in 1942.

The Port Nicholson, a British merchant ship, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in an attack that killed six people.

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Article | A real rock star: 62-pound gold nugget discovered by metal detectors gets its Houston moment

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Published by Culture Map, Written by Whitney Radley, Sunday 29^th January 2012.

In April 2010, three unsuspecting prospectors were metal detecting in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia when their hand-held machine went nuts.

Was it gold ore? Was it an old aluminum can?

Neither: It was the Ausrox Gold Nugget. A monster nugget. One of the largest ever discovered, in fact, weighing in at 62.33 troy pounds.

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