“I put my hand in, pulled out a bit of clay and there was a little radial, a little bronze Roman coin very, very small, about the size of my fingernail,” Crisp said.

Aug 9, 1935 – Hussar, which sank in th East river in 1870 has been located by Simon Lake, the noted submarine inventor, he has just an nounced. One legend has it that the Hussar had 4.800,000 in her hold. Lake means to find out. With his crew of 30 men, headed by the famous deep sea diver Read more excerpts like this ..

Ironically this gold pendant (the size of a stamp) was found by a amateur metal detectorist only a few inches below the soil. This pendant is estimated to be dated from around the 15th century. It depicts the Holy Trinity and is in remarkable condition.

Posted by Minnesotastan in Everything Else on November 4, 2009 at 3:48 pm A young man, using his metal detector for the first time, walked about seven steps from his car and got a signal. The four gold Iron Age neck ornaments, or torcs, date from between the 1st and 3rd Century BC and are [...]

The gold and silver artefacts, which are already shedding new light on the Dark Ages, are collectively worth almost double the amount of the most expensive ancient treasure previously found in Britain.

For the past five years Horst H. Liebner has been uncovering the mystery behind 1,000-year-old artifacts recovered from two sunken treasures in the Java Sea. Since1987, the German scholar has been researching maritime culture and the history of the Malay Archipelago. As scientific advisor, Liebner, 49, who is based in Makassar, Sulawesi, has painstakingly pieced [...]

Californian is fighting heirs in Texas over the right to dig for it Nathan Smith appeared in federal court in Houston on Monday. If Nathan Smith’s plan to search for a buried treasure near the Texas Gulf Coast using Google Earth and a metal detector sounds like a Hollywood movie, it should. After all, Smith, [...]

By Associated Press March 22, 2008 Last updated: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:00 PM EDT HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A treasure hunter wants permission to dig in a state forest in northern Pennsylvania for a cache of gold he believes was lost by a Union convoy transporting it to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia during the [...]

The Lost Treasure of Tunisia   A young German soldier poses proudly with his parents in a crumpled and torn old photograph. But this particular snapshot holds a secret that could unlock a 60-year-old mystery – the whereabouts of a fabled hoard of looted Nazi gold worth £20million.   For scrawled in fading blue ink [...]

Shipwreck Nets Silver Cache Deep-sea treasure hunters, Odyssey Marine Exploration have claimed potentially the most lucrative shipwreck treasure in history (I guess Dirk Pitt and NUMA dropped the ball on this one). Their recent find netted them 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from a site in the Atlantic Ocean with an estimated [...]