If you've found Civil War bullets while metal detecting, preserving their patina during cleaning is key. In this guide, we ...

A treasure hunter who was inspired by BBC comedy Detectorists to take up the hobby found a £50,000 silver coin hoard just two ...

Hundreds of gold coins from the 1800s were unearthed in Kentucky, but the real story may lie in why they were buried.

As archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation excavated a site in search of American Revolution history, the ...

Steve Hickman, 59, bought a secondhand metal detector from eBay after watching the hit TV show starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The skeletons were found on the grounds of the Colonial ...

One soldier had two $5 gold coins from 1852. Another had a toothbrush made of animal bone and a snuff bottle, used for sniffing tobacco. The bullet in the soldier’s spine was a Minié ball, a ...

A treasure hunter inspired by the BBC comedy Detectorists found a valuable Civil War coin haul just two months after taking ...