Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their scanners led them to an ornate 24cm dagger covered in stars and crescent ...

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. Her “Book of Smiles” holds a closeup photograph of each ...

Ruled by the Britons, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Normans, and eventually raided relentlessly by Vikings, the precariously placed British Islands have some of the most fascinating history in the ...