Treasure Hunting Magazine

03/07/2025

The August issue of Treasure Hunting Magazine is out now!
Produced by experienced detectorists, Treasure Hunting Magazine is packed with features for the entire detecting community. Whether you're a complete beginner, a seasoned expert, or simply curious about the hobby, you’ll find something to enjoy.

For the price of a pint, each issue offers hours of information and entertainment – escape into the fascinating world of metal detecting and be inspired to get out in the field. Learn from fellow detectorists to help interpret the land, increase your success rate, and identify your discoveries.

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Each month, we bring you a brilliant mix of real-life stories, expert tips, amazing finds, and all the inspiration you need to get out and enjoy the hobby. Written by detectorists, for detectorists, it’s packed with useful info to help you read the land, improve your finds, and figure out what you...

30/06/2025

READER FINDS - PUBLISHED FOR ALL TO SEE
Treasure Hunting magazine’s Reader Finds is a wonderful way to share your detecting successes and through all your efforts has now become a very strong and established element of the contents. First initiated some seven years ago they have since expanded from one page to four. Apart from the delight of seeing your find published this section also benefits other readers whose identical and similar complete and ‘partefact’ finds have often been identified as a result. As we all know this hobby isn’t all about gold and silver (despite our desires), although of course both are welcome in this section as is almost any detecting-based find. Reader Finds is ideal for everyone from new starters, younger detectorists as well as us seasoned veterans. It might be your first ‘Viccy’ penny, broken hammered, fibula section, Roman coin, even an interesting shot gun cartridge tip, all are welcome and indeed make a good and varied reflection of our hobby as a whole.

CLUBS AND GROUPS
Reader Finds is also an ideal showcase opportunity for Clubs and Groups to both share and celebrate their members finds, especially where a bigger written feature might not be to your preference. So why not send us a single find or a selection of finds that you would like to see published in the magazine? All we require is minimal text as per template below, please feel most welcome to save it to modify for your own finds now or in the future.

READER FINDS TEXT SUBMISSION TEMPLATE – PLEASE USE FOR EACH SUBMISSION.

Find: Broken Tudor copper-alloy buckle.
Location: Stubble field in Staffordshire.
Machine: Minelab Equinox 900.
Recovery: Good signal, 28 on the VDI, depth: 4 inches.
Finder: Penny Cranbourne, Staffordshire.
Club, Group or Event if applicable: Sedgecombe & District MDC etc or N/A.

IMAGES
These should be Jpeg file format, mega-close-ups and around 250-500Kb in file size. Artefacts can have 1-2 images always showing the complete artefact front and back. Coins should be photographed from above to show true flan shape, and consist of two separate photos of the obverse, and reverse irrespective of condition. All images should show minimal background which should be plain or pastel and have no graph like squares or size scale.

SUBMITTING
Looking forward to hearing from you - please submit text template and accompanying images to [email protected]

LARGER MAGAZINE FEATURES.
Any budding authors out there? If you’d like details on submitting a larger feature for consideration, such as club events, major finds, or just a great day out - please feel most welcome to contact me for submission details on the email above.
Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977. www.treasurehunting.co.uk

Best Jules.

29/06/2025

DON’T MISS THE CURRENT ISSUE!
For many detectorists finding an Anglo-Saxon ‘flat penny’ or other issue is a dream come true. Feast your eyes upon some of the wonderful coins of Aethelred and arguably the most famous of all kings of the period Alfred the Great in Richard Kelleher's latest feature. Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977.
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27/06/2025

WEEKEND FINDS
Hoping this weekend will reveal some superb finds for people - here in the UK we have around 3500 of metallic history which sure does give us plenty of opportunity. Although its not all about metallic finds as often with our hobby we find a fair bit of 'eyes only' stuff too - such as flint tools and fossils which also make interesting additions to our displays - and on the subject of things seen, especially for our hobby's new starters - look out for stone scatters, tile, pottery and shells, especially on any new permissions obtained., small clues often the keys to future finds success.
GROUND NESTING BIRDS
This is also a good time of year to be aware that several species of ground nesting birds are still active such as Skylarks and Peewits are still very active. Thrillingly, I'm hearing rumours of combines already being in the fields (suspect that's got to be the Barley) from the Eastern Counties but nothing confirmed 100% - yet. Whatever harvest is coming soon to most of us and that usual level of excitement and anticipation is already building up. So ladies and gents wishing you all a fun packed weekend and much success on the finds front be that a Faustina denarius, flint tool a good fossil or even four marvellously speckled Peewits eggs!! Best Jules.
Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977. www.treasurehunting.co.uk

25/06/2025

SIZE DOES MATTER - SMALLEST OF THE SMALL
Those really small finds that we make are more often than not bits of rubbish as opposed to interesting finds. But no matter what if we are finding the odd micro find its a sure way of your detector confirming to you that its not missing much under its coil. I always find that a most reassuring and satisfying factor. One of the most interesting small things we find, are those Roman Minims - you know, out on wet drizzly day on a claggy clay Roman site and you get that signal. One minute you've got it in your hand then somehow you've dropped the lump bearing the signal, its at your feet and after a while you've got it again. Then it disappears only to reappear back down by your feet again. Several times it's stuck to a muddy finger, which you 'shave off' the clay. Then finally you've got it once again, narrowing down the clay lump and then squishing that last bit between thumb and forefinger and the tiny disc-shaped coin is at last evident.
SMALLEST ROMAN MINIM AND STUD
The smallest Minim I've ever found was just 4mm across. One other time I had a good signal and it must have taken me a good few minutes to track it down in the dry dusty soil, finally I had it. It was the smallest quatrefoil flower-shaped belt stud I'd ever seen - whoever put that central rivet in there had good eyesight - for scale I later placed it on a match head it was a fraction over 3mm. Here is a selection of some of my 'small finds' over the years - What's your smallest ever find be it rubbish or something of interest? Best Jules. Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977. www.treasurehunting.co.uk

24/06/2025

DON’T MISS THE CURRENT ISSUE!
It’s always interesting to keep up to date and hear about the latest developments from PAS. Find out from Michael Lewis just what these are and see what further valuable work is being done in the current issue of Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977. www.treasurehunting.co.uk

20/06/2025

ALL THE VERY BEST LADIES AND GENTS
Wishing that and more to everyone out and about detecting over the coming weekend. I know there are several big weekenders planned so safe travel to everyone heading out to those or to their own sites. To all those heading out for the first time for a newly acquired permission or a new promising looking field I feel your anticipation, thrill and excitement - It's part of the very stuff our hobby is made of. Hats, plenty of water and accessible shade is probably a good prescription too - as it looks like a hot one, probably no hotter than it was back in 76 but there we go? However still deserving of respect in these temperatures. Have a great time and as always if you'd like to share your finds and experiences making them we'd be delighted to hear from you all - Best Jules. Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977.
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17/06/2025

DON’T MISS THE CURRENT ISSUE!
Minelab Equinox 700 Field Test. Adrian has been having a good in depth look at this Minelab detector. What does it offer? What are his conclusions? Find out and see some of the finds he made using it in the current issue of Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977.

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15/06/2025

17TH CENTURY TRADER'S TOKENS
I have a fascination with these small copper tokens, although it has to be said when I first started detecting they were of no interest at all to me and I gave many away and dare I say it even threw some away. For some reason they just didn't interest me at all and all these years later I still cannot explain my attitude to them as now I treat them with the respect they deserve. Each one offers a little window into local people, trades, trading and distribution and acceptability as many have been found hundreds of miles from their point of origin. Found in numbers they can point the detectorist to a market site with all the associated finds potential. These tokens cover a myriad of named individuals, and trades such as Grocers, Butchers, Millers and their marital status (Shown by initials) and also establishments such as pubs and inns. Thus in their own right providing a superb resource for the detectorist to research further. They have also become established in the auction and collecting world and good examples or rare issues can command several hundreds of pounds occasionally more.
SO WHAT EXACTLY ARE THESE TRADE TOKENS?
Basically during a period of a great lack of official small change (1648-1672) being available in England, Wales and Ireland these copper or brass tokens were struck to fill in that gap and were semi-officially accepted as substitutes. They occur in Farthing, Halfpenny and less commonly Penny denominations. The vast majority were round but less commonly heart-shaped varieties were produced. Here are a selection of my own finds and those of other people I've seen over the last decade or so. Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977.
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All the best Jules.

14/06/2025

SHARING OUR FINDS - WHAT A WONDERFUL HOBBY
This was at the Colchester Detecting Club dig at Wethersfield - No doubt a scene repeated all over the UK today. Treasure Hunting magazine – helping you get the most out of your hobby since 1977.
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- Best Jules.