How to Use detectorist in a Sentence
detectorist
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The metal detectorist found the ring in 2020, reports Arkeonews’ Oguz Kayra.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
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See it → Metal detectorist unearths 'one-of-a-kind' gold treasure from 1,400 years ago.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
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The expert metal detectorist knew that those two numbers could be indicative of a gold ring.
—Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
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Richard Brock was an hour late to a meetup of amateur metal detectorists.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
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Read Next Metal detectorist stumbles on worn tool — and finds 5,000-year-old artifact.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
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Pickering isn’t the only metal detectorist to stumble onto a Harold coin in recent years.
—Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2020
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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
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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
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See them → Metal detectorists find ancient portrait in Danish field.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
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See them → Metal detectorists find ancient portrait in Danish field.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2024
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In 2016, another metal detectorist found a hoard of Viking artifacts.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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In 2020, a metal detectorist stumbled upon a rare early medieval brooch in Somerset, England.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
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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
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Metal detectorists have unearthed a tiny trinket covered in beautiful, intricate designs in Norfolk, England.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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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
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