How to Use detectorist in a Sentence

detectorist

noun

• The metal detectorist found the ring in 2020, reports Arkeonews’ Oguz Kayra.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• See it → Metal detectorist unearths 'one-of-a-kind' gold treasure from 1,400 years ago.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• The expert metal detectorist knew that those two numbers could be indicative of a gold ring.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
• Richard Brock was an hour late to a meetup of amateur metal detectorists.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
• Read Next Metal detectorist stumbles on worn tool — and finds 5,000-year-old artifact.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• Pickering isn’t the only metal detectorist to stumble onto a Harold coin in recent years.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
• The coins are part of a larger treasure that two metal detectorists uncovered in Herefordshire, England, in 2015.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
• An amateur metal detectorist who discovered what is thought to be one of England's first gold coins could soon see a payday of nearly half a million dollars.
  — CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
• See them → Metal detectorists find ancient portrait in Danish field.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2024
• See them → Metal detectorists find ancient portrait in Danish field.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
• In 2016, another metal detectorist found a hoard of Viking artifacts.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
• See what was found inside The metal detectorists discovered four brooches, some buckles, a tubular pendant, a bronze bead, a ring and fragments of more broaches, the association said.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• While searching a Polish forest in November, a metal detectorist made a rare discovery: a 4,000-year-old copper dagger that may have belonged to an elite warrior.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• In 2020, a metal detectorist stumbled upon a rare early medieval brooch in Somerset, England.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
• An amateur detectorist also uncovered a medieval love token, the largest pink diamond in 300 years turned up in Angola, and more than two dozen ancient Roman bronze statues appeared in the mud at a thermal bath in Tuscany.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
• As archaeologists excavated a site in southern Norway, a metal detectorist searched the surrounding area — uncovering a 700-year-old artifact linked to a young king.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
• Metal detectorists have unearthed a tiny trinket covered in beautiful, intricate designs in Norfolk, England.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• Initially, metal detectorists found three piles, or deposits, of bronze artifacts that archaeologists identified as part of an ancient sacrificial site.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024