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LAFAYETTE — Once undisturbed for more than 1,000 years, the cache of rare items making up the River of Gold exhibit at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum beckons visitors with its eclectic pieces and beauty. On loan from the University of Pennsylvania, the exhibit will be displayed until May 3, when it [...]
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I could not handle it no longer. I have been doing a lot of stuff around the house and getting everything ready for our Spring ‘Members only’ club hunt and not doing any detecting. So the day before our hunt, now that everything was as it was going to be, I went out in [...]
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By Associated Press March 22, 2008 Last updated: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:00 PM EDT HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A treasure hunter wants permission to dig in a state forest in northern Pennsylvania for a cache of gold he believes was lost by a Union convoy transporting it to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia during the [...]
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By Mike Clary | South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 19, 2008 Miami – The treasure is out there: a fortune in shipwrecked silver, gold bullion and centuries-old artifacts, in the crystalline waters of the Caribbean, just waiting to be found. And Burt Webber Jr. is confident he’ll find it. “It’s not just about getting [...]
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By Winston Ross The Register-Guard Published: February 19, 2008 12:48PM You’ll never guess what washed up near Cannon Beach last week: a pair of really old cannons. Not just any cannons, either, but likely the very same ones that inspired the name Cannon Beach, back around the time the town was formed in the early [...]
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Bus driver unearths £80,000 hoard of Bronze Age Axe heads with metal detector Last updated at 17:31pm on 21st January 2008 Printed in the Daily Mail Bus driver and metal detector fanatic Tom Peirce is in for a bumper pay day after unearthing 500 Bronze Age artefacts – one of the largest ever ancient finds. [...]
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Local Treasure Hunter Comes Up Roses By Terry Mosher Monday, December 31, 2007 Kitsap Sun Stewart Hill’s 1981 Rose Bowl ring was found by Poulsbo resident Charles Currier, who discovered it in Seattle’s Green Lake using a metal detector. Former UW football player Stewart Hill, left, and Poulsbo resident Charles Currier, share a photo opportunity [...]
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The Lost Treasure of Tunisia A young German soldier poses proudly with his parents in a crumpled and torn old photograph. But this particular snapshot holds a secret that could unlock a 60-year-old mystery – the whereabouts of a fabled hoard of looted Nazi gold worth £20million. For scrawled in fading blue ink [...]
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Shipwreck Nets Silver Cache Deep-sea treasure hunters, Odyssey Marine Exploration have claimed potentially the most lucrative shipwreck treasure in history (I guess Dirk Pitt and NUMA dropped the ball on this one). Their recent find netted them 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from a site in the Atlantic Ocean with an estimated [...]
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