providing valuable insights into how to identify Civil War relics found while metal detecting. Seeing these items as they were originally used makes identifying artifacts from this period much ...

Metal detecting has been around for a long time ... of iron and likely came from the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter. It landed on Earth between 100 and 1,000 years ago.

I realized that it was a belt plate, and I was like, holy smokes,” Papallo said. “It was post-Civil War because of the way it was made.” Greenway, who has only been metal detecting for a ...

Metal detector in hand, Andy Thaxton marches the ... Thaxton detected his most satisfying find in 2023, a Civil War belt plate inscribed by the soldier-owner: Private Michael Hofer, 16th Ohio ...

Two men with metal detectors recently discovered a trove of ... in addition to a chain necklace and a belt constructed out of circular metallic pendants, each marked with solar symbols.

But that doesn’t have to be the case. With the right metal detector, a little patience, and some knowledge of history, anyone can dig up centuries-old jewelry and long-lost coins — or at least ...

That same year, he purchased his first metal detector. “I'd always wanted to do it ever since I was a little kid on the beaches in Rehoboth and saw the guys (going) up and down,” said Haardt.