The Kenosha School Board has approved purchasing metal detectors for six high schools, a new search policy and revisions to ...

Editor's Note: January 29, 2026: We've checked to make sure that our recommendations are still available and competitively priced. We’re in the process of testing a new round of metal detectors to ...

The Metal Detector in Rust is perhaps one of the most ingenious things to have ever been added. If you have a yearning to go on a treasure hunt or just kill time out of boredom, this is the perfect ...

When Ellie Verrecchia pulled up in her car for her first metal detecting dig in the Cornish countryside, she quickly discovered she was the only woman. “I didn’t know how to hold my gear and no one ...

Planning on escaping the winter weather for a beach trip? Bring this metal detector with you if you want to bring home some treasures. The Popular Mechanics gear team recommends the Minelab Vanquish ...

In this episode of Depths of History, we explore a Civil War battle site that lasted only 90 minutes, uncovering both Union and Confederate relics through metal detecting. The video features the ...

Steve Hickman, 60, was inspired by the popular BBC series. An amateur treasure hunter who was inspired by the popular BBC metal-detecting series Detectorists recently unearthed a stunning cache of ...

The History Channel has been airing "The Curse of Oak Island" for 12 seasons now. Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their now prodigious group of cohorts, affectionately referred to as The ...

Metal detecting is getting popular fast in Santa Clarita Valley. Once seen as an old hobby, it’s now modern, exciting, and tech-friendly. More people are buying metal detectors and heading outside.

A treasure hunter inspired by the BBC comedy Detectorists found a valuable Civil War coin haul just two months after taking up the hobby. The hoard of 16th Century and 17th Century silver coins, which ...

Some of the 16th Century and 17th Century coins found by Steve Hickman, fetched more than £1,000 each at auction A treasure hunter inspired by the BBC comedy Detectorists found a valuable Civil War ...