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
  • The metal detectorist also uncovered two medieval weapons.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 June 2024
  • 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

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