Yes it’s common to win a prize some time ago you could win a tector but they wised up
Others do it to get some attention because they don’t find much cos they have low attention span to keep going with no finds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7 ... 3q1XS7fn_c

This is a strange story

A lot of good items were found in abandoned spoil heaps as we didn’t have pin pointers like the pulse dive back then ,,I left behind a very nice Georgian coin in a spoil heap and found by somebody else..ggrrrr When the tide was coming in you didn’t have time to check spoil heaps before getting cut o...

I suspect migrants from Albania and other places who will stop at nothing inc churches ,it’s been going on a longtime

I chat to a couple local guys who use a magnet and finds are usually scrap metal,shoping trollies feature mostly ,with bike frames and bent wheels, gas piping and scaffolding poles ,and street signs ,that’s about it ,I have never seen anything usefull and they usually leave a mess for the council to...

Me and my buddy’s dug the Cherwell 30 yrs ago and only found old pennies and a book clasp

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24157 ... 20Cherwell.

Here he is
I think


https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/r ... ore-target