It's all about treasure hunting and hidden hoards of Vikings, Roman Empire, Celts, Scythians, Byzantium, Goths, Kyiv's, Middle Ages, WWI & WWII and more.
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Interesting #find from an anonymous UA🇺🇦 detectorist -- an axe amulet with magical signs, most likely 11th–13th century, Kyivan State period.
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Interesting find from Danish 🇩🇰 detectorist Michael Sølling Petersen -- a set of early Soviet cockade and buttons from pre-1939 military uniform.
How it ended up in Denmark before the 2WW is anyone’s guess.
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Small collection of silver Roman coins from UA detectorist Volodymyr Ostapchuk. #metaldetecting
Some quite interesting and rare denarii -- a nice little #numismatic set.
Two UK 🇬🇧 detectorists (Alan Daniels, 48, and Andy Crammond, 34) struck #gold at a rally near Carlisle -- three pristine Bronze Age gold torcs, around 1100 BC, weighing 518 g and worth over £300,000.
Buried for 3,000 years and still shining. A proper treasure. #metaldetecting
📸 BNPS
Nice find from UA by detectorist Igor Korniichuk -- a silver kolt from the 11th–13th centuries of the Kyivan State. A temporal pendant with a human-like bird and a coat of arms. #metaldetecting
Sometimes the best find comes right when you’re ready to quit. #metaldetecting
David H. 🇬🇧 had almost nothing after six hours on a new permission with his Garrett Vortex. On the way back to the van one last high tone stopped him -- and Queen Victoria’s Bun Head appeared.
An 1841 Half Sovereign. #gold
Moments like this are why we keep digging.
Nice find from UA🇺🇦 detectorist Andrii Bekerskyi -- a short Scythian iron sword #metaldetecting
Right after it came out of the ground, and after #cleaning and conservation.
A solid piece for any collection. #sword
UK🇬🇧 detectorist Grant Hebblewhite got lucky and found gold. #metaldetecting
Cunobelin #gold staters from the early 1st century AD -- and the ones with wheat ears came out of a wheat field. #time
In 1907, peasants near Martynivka in Ukraine found 116 silver items from the 6th–7th centuries -- over 3 kg. They split the hoard, and it took years to get it back. #history
Part went to the British Museum, the rest stayed in Kyiv.
Among them are four silver “dancing men” with strange helmet-like heads. What are these aliens?
How did you spend your weekend? Show your finds!
📸 Mine looked like this --
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To all treasure hunters -- best of luck this weekend! #metaldetecting
Where the rainbow starts, there’s always #gold.
📸 Florin Dragut
UK 🇬🇧 detectorist Chris Brooksbank got lucky and pulled a #gold sovereign from 1851.
That’s roughly 7.3 grams of pure gold in one coin. #metaldetecting
Gold ring found by Norwegian🇳🇴 detectorist Eirik Syvertsen #metaldetecting
What do you think -- Viking Age or later?
And what’s the stone?
What a rarity from UA🇺🇦 detectorist Hryhoriy Stepanovych -- a tin-bronze mirror, repaired with two silver denarii from Roman times. #metaldetecting
Someone really didn’t want to throw this one away.
Nice find by UA🇺🇦 detectorist Volodymyr Zayets -- a Polish silver trojak of Sigismund III from 1600. #metaldetecting
The king’s portrait looks a bit funny. Did he really have a face like that, or is it just the engraver’s style?
What a find from UA🇺🇦 -- a bronze Hallstatt cauldron, found by a detectorist.
Early Iron Age, roughly 8th–6th century BC.
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What a find -- a gold ring with a coat of arms, found by UK detectorist Chris Lawrence #metaldetecting
Anyone know whose arms these are?
Nice find #from UK🇬🇧 detectorist Andy Thelwell -- gold 1777 half guinea of George III.
Last sunny days of the year, and gold always looks good in the sun. #metaldetecting
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The Orlivka Hoard. #treasurehunting
In 1967, builders in the village of Orlivka, Odesa region 🇺🇦, dug up a bronze vessel at about 30–40 cm deep.
Inside were coins, later handed over to the Odesa Archaeological Museum. The #find consists of a bronze oinochoe (ancient Greek wine jug) and 73 electrum Cyzicene coins minted in the Greek city of Cyzicus. The handle is decorated with masks, one of them the face of Dionysus. Dated to the mid-to-late 4th century BC.
The hoard has 43 different types of Cyzicenes. On the obverse -- gods, mythical creatures, animals, portraits.
On the reverse -- the characteristic incuse square.
