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Detectorist meaning
A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
Example sentences (10)
It was a find of such magnitude that the amateur detectorist who discovered it was lost for words, and the expert who unraveled its mysteries spent two years researching it.
The ring was found by a metal detectorist in a ploughed field in the St Florence area on September 21, 2021.
Only around a dozen ancient carnyxes have been found to date – the most recent one was found by a metal detectorist in Suffolk in 2016.
The rare artifacts date back to around 500 BCE—and the detectorist's second go was somehow just as fortuitous.
Antique coin seller, 60, who helped metal detectorist gang.
Now a detectorist in the Scottish Borders has uncovered a haul of bronze age artefacts – including a complete horse harness and preserved leather and wood – in what is described as a “nationally significant” discovery.
The 1.75in-tall item, which depicts an armed horse rider, was discovered by an anonymous metal detectorist near Bradwell in Great Yarmouth.
A detectorist spokesman said: "People could have died.
Legal action has been filed at the Court of Session in Edinburgh against metal detectorist Derek McLennan, who found the hoard in 2014.
It was discovered by a detectorist in a field near the village of Hailey, Oxfordshire, more than a decade ago but it was assumed to be a modern copy, nothing more than a curiosity.