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If you love metal detecting, you’ll love Treasure Hunting Magazine. Each month, we bring you a brilliant mix of real-life stories, expert tips, amazing finds, and all the inspiration you need to get out and enjoy the hobby. Written by detectorists, for detectorists, it’s packed with useful info to help you read the land, improve your finds, and figure out what you’ve dug up. Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been detecting for years, there’s something for everyone.

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April 2026 CONTENTS

News and Views Treasure Hunting Magazine

News & Views

Bronze Age artefacts are in the spotlight this month, including a founder’s hoard and an axe head mould. Plus, a great selection of news and stories from around the world of metal detecting.

The Yorkshire Detectorist

In this month’s column, Nick Toczek discusses cantankerous detectorists and gives us three reasons to be cheerful

Trade Tokens of London

Jason Sandy brings the history of medieval London to life by researching some of the trade tokens he has found on the Thames foreshore.

Heritage Crime

Steve Glüning explains how detectorists can play an important role to help combat illegal detecting.

Readers Finds

A glorious pictorial summary of some of our readers’ recent finds.

Portable Antiquities Scheme Update

This regular feature provides a summary of what was recorded on the PAS database last month and celebrates two brothers with over 100 years detecting experience between them.

Celtic Coin Values

Details and sale prices of Celtic coins sold recently by Chris Rudd Auctions

Following in Their Footsteps

Hopenscope might not find any signs of the ‘undiscovered Roman villa’ he’d been hoping lay on his new permission, but he does unearth a very interesting lead figurine.

A British War Medal Amongst Other Finds

Despite the green waste contaminating his permission, Ryan Seeley’s persistence paid off, resulting in a World War I medal being returned to its owner’s descendants.

The Broadhembury Ring

Ella Mackenzie dives into this history behind this amazing artefact recovered by a detectorist in Devon.

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Godfrey Pratt is delighted to discover that the piece of modern tat he had dismissed turns out to be a rare Roman ring!

Sweeping Thoughts

Adrian Evans shares his finds as he builds his ‘Personal Catalogue of Detecting Memories’.

The Oddfellows Hoard

From Lost Keys to Local History – A search for some lost keys in a local paddock led Nick Such to unearth a lot more than he’d bargained for.

Auction Round-Up

A selection of lots sold at TimeLine Auctions’ recent sale.

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READER FINDS
SHARING YOUR SUCCESS

Reader Finds through all your efforts has now become a very strong and established element of the contents of Treasure Hunting magazine. First initiated some five years ago they have since expanded from one page to four.

Apart from the delight of seeing your find published this section also benefits other readers whose identical and similar complete and ‘partefact’ finds have often been identified as a result. As we all know this hobby isn’t all about gold and silver (despite our desires), although of course both are welcome in this section and so almost any detecting find is qualified to appear here. Your first Viccy penny, broken hammered, fibula section, Roman coin, even an interesting shot gun cartridge tip, all are welcome and are indeed make a good reflection of our hobby as a whole.

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