The National Forests in NC wants to prohibit leaving geocaches in Wildernesses, Experimental Forests or Wild and Scenic River corridors, and limiting the possession or use of metal detectors on National Forest lands.

Police reported that a treasure hunter enthusiast with a metal detector located an unexploded “artillery ordnance device” that was found a few yards from the pavement near 47th Street in Garden City

Ever since Scott Mitchen unearthed his first Indian-head nickel at the site of an old country store parking lot in Benoit at the age of 10, he has been infected with allure of treasure hunting.

A higher federal court will now hear the legal dispute over just who owns the richest sunken treasure ever found, either Tampa’s Odyssey Marine, which found the treasure, or Spain, which claims it as a historic artifact.

For thousands of years meteorites have slammed into the earth’s surface, each one carrying an invaluable record of the very beginnings of the solar system. But finding meteorites, some buried over centuries by thick layers of dirt and sediment, is no easy task. Now, Science Channel is bringing viewers on a search for alien treasures [...]

After researching online he became excited when he learned similar torcs dated back to about 750BC and had fetched up to £350,000 at auction.
But tests on the piece by British Museum experts ruled it was a fake and probably less than 300 years old.
Gutted Andrew must now split the estimated £13,500 value with landowner David [...]

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 said to [...]