Treasure Hunting

If you’re not familiar with the website Flickr, it’s an amazing photo sharing site with a large fan base. We have started a new group specifically for TreasureHunting.com - Metal Detecting Finds. If you have pictures of anything you’ve ever found while metal detecting, add them to the group.

If we see anything interesting show up in the flickr group, we’ll feature it on this site, and give credit to the person that found it.

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Here are a few books that we thought you might be interested in. Yes, reading takes away from your time metal detecting, but you might find a few tips that will help you on your next outing.

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  The Urban Treasure Hunter: A Practical Handbook for Beginners
  From Publishers Weekly
  Tompkins Square Park, in New York City’s East Village, has produced coin recoveries dating back to the 1830s. A construction site in Philadelphia recently yielded ceramic perfume containers and embossed pipe bowls from the 1860s. “Urban treasure hunter” Chaplan explains how to find, unearth and identify valuable artifacts like these in this how-to manual. He provides information on dealing with curious onlookers and fitting into a neighborhood (in “upscale” areas, dress like a jogger; in “tough areas,” wear camouflage items and worn jeans), covers legal issues, provides a surprisingly scholarly and in-depth lesson in archeology and details how and where to search for and clean old coins, bottles and historical and prehistoric artifacts (he also gives tips on how to cash in on this hobby). Chaplan peppers his text with quotations from fictional and real adventurers, from Sherlock Holmes to Rudyard Kipling, and includes do-it-yourself instructions for building a sifter and even setting up an electrolysis device for cleaning unearthed metal objects. Chaplan’s enthusiasm enlivens the extensive, solid factual information, and although his comparison of urban treasure hunters to history’s swashbuckling explorers is a bit exaggerated, stories of his own hunting experiences in the greater New York area, as well as tales of discoveries of booty in unexpected places, prove his point that adventures and buried treasure are closer to home than most would expect.
  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.




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  Buried Treasures You Can Find: Over 7500 Locations in All 50 States
  From Customer Review
  This book is great. It has many great places to look for treasure in every state. The author has done years of research to find many old ghost towns, buried treasure stories, and many other places. It gives tips on metal detecting, but seems to have been paid by Garrett Metal Detectors to advertise and show their detectors in this book. It also informs you how to find good places to look. This book is a masterpiece and very interesting even if you are not going out to look for lost treasures of yesterday.




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  Treasure Hunting With Metal Detectors
  Product Description
  Metal detecting has opened a whole new vista for the treasure hunter. With these tools a treasure hunter can find what the old hunters had missed and could not find. Various methods of recovery are covered in Gerry Edwards book including the cleaning and preserving of your valuable finds. In depth research on how to use a metal detector in the recovery of treasure are covered in this book. Tried and true methods of the author are revealed with his results as a testament on how to recover what the old timers missed.

If you’ve read these books already, we’d love to hear what you think of them, or if you know of a book that should have been included, tell us about it in the comments.

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On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. The aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

We will be participating in this event. Metal detector enthusiast as a group seem to be very aware of environmental concerns, so this should be a fun event. If you have any ideas for a story, please let us know in the comments.

Here’s a video from the Organization that started it all:

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Over 280 metal detector enthusiasts visited Englefield Estate on Sunday, September 9th, in hopes of finding rare treasures, and also to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, in memory of a local detector, George Pearce, who died from the disease in 2005.

Among the items found was an Iron Age gold quarter stater, engraved with the image of a rearing horse, coming from the Atrebates tribe that was spread across south east England.

Another find was a bronze statuette of Neptune, but the event’s organizers are skeptical about the Roman authenticity. Wessex Metal Detecting Association chairman Jim Bradshaw said,

“I’m not too happy with the provenance of the statue. To start with, it hasn’t been in the soil for long – it’s far too clean. Also, it has traces of paint, which would indicate that it’s a recent loss.”

Sounds like it was a great day, and a successful rally for the charity. Apparently, the site has been occupied for over 2000 years, so you know it’s filled with tons of relics just waiting to be found.

Have you been to Englefield Estate? If you have, let us know in the comments. Sounds like an amazing place.

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