On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their scanners led them to an ornate 24cm dagger covered in stars and crescent ...

Editor's Note: December 12, 2025: We've checked to make sure that our recommendations are still available and competitively priced. We’re preparing for a new round of metal detector testing, which ...

Rough Science has a gold theme running through it, and one of the challenges for the first episode was to make a metal detector to help locate this precious metal. Iron, gold and other metals Metals ...