We have been leading History Hunts for close to 10 years now, and I am still amazed and surprised by some of the discoveries our hunters make. This hunt was definitely one of “shock and awe,” with quite a few high-quality, rare artifacts found and one find that would set a record for History Hunts. Our team of ten detected several different sites over the four-day hunt. The weather was interesting, to put it kindly: Day 1 – 80 degrees and sunny, Day 2 – Freezing rain and blowing wind, Day 3 – Morning snow and freezing cold, Day 4 – 50s and sunny. That said, this team did us proud, finding over 100 US and CS Civil War bullets; a CS 12-pounder cannon ball; numerous Civil War buttons (including
Sometimes we refer to our great hobby as treasure hunting, but rarely do we find anything that would truly be classified as treasure. Our last tour of metal detecting in England was the exception to that rule in a big way! Over the course of two weeks our small crew was able to find over one hundred coins and artifacts dating from before Christ though to the 1800s. Included were Roman bronze and silver coins and artifacts, early medieval silver coins and ancient gold coins and jewelry. The highlights were five Anglo Saxon silver pennies dating from around 600-1000AD (found by Rory and Drew), as well as the five gold items. These included a beautiful gold Roman coin dating to around 500AD (fo