I have to say I have dug far more sweet wrappers than Roman gold coins!

Sometimes its hard to know what you would do in an individual situation until it happens to you. I am partly thinking about that builder a week or so ago who found £18000 or so in a house he was renovating, he handed it in and the state (police) claimed it as loot even tho it could not be proved wh...

The notes look burnt, not water damaged. What a waste - that's at least a new car each for me and the Mrs, iPads for the kids and a couple of nice holidays!

Perhaps it is the land owners who should be targeted and educated. If it wasn't for them agreeing to take the wretched stuff, the government would have to find somewhere else to put it.

That ring ditch in the Telegraph report - nothing to do with keeping it tidy. He probably had a lovely backhander from a muck-away company who were looking to pay a bit less than official land fill rates. No-body is THAT stupid.

I think most guys would rather give you half an hour with their wife than invite someone they don't know onto one of their independently obtained permissions. Detectorists are very protective of the land they have access to, although I am sure there are notable exceptions. In fairness, apart from th...

He always seemed like a real character. Maybe it was the shock of seeing Tony Robinson get the sword tap when, in all honesty, Mick was far more deserving.

Oh well, it was obviously a reasonable idea, just five years after the forum had it! I think the tent peg thing was a bit of a red herring and needn't have put paid to it, as a couple of the responders in 2008 said. Still, if he uses monster detectors and other individual detectorists have been seen...

I had a similar idea for charity fundraising which would involve approaching the landowners for the sites of the coming series of summer rock/pop festivals - "V", Glastonbury, Isle of Wight etc., all of which are attended by thousands of happy/drunk/stoned people. There must be loads of co...

It wasn't the coughing that carried him off, but the coffin they carried him off in