This is the rarest Civil War shell ever caught on camera—a Federal Union Sawyer shell, unearthed while metal detecting in ...

that signal may be able to tell you how deep an object is buried, based on the strength of the response. Most of the detectors I recommend can determine what kind of metal they’re reading by ...

Join Heath Jones of the History Seekers as he explores a forgotten 19th-century wagon road deep in the Alabama woods with his Minelab Equinox 800. What starts as a solo hunt quickly turns into a ...

[Dzl] and his rather serious looking son are metal detector enthusiasts. But when they couldn’t find their store-bought metal detector earlier this summer they just went ahead and built their own.

If you think of a metal detector, you’re probably thinking of a fairly simple device with a big coil and a piercing whine coming from a tinny speaker. [mircemk] has built a more modern adaptation.