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Treasure hunters dig up fun ways

Bill Martin sweeps a metal detector from side to side over the grass, straining his ears for the sound of even the faintest beep. Suddenly he stops walking as the detector alerts him.Bill Martin sweeps a metal detector from side to side over the grass, straining his ears for the sound of even the faintest beep. Suddenly he stops walking as the detector alerts him. There is a metal object in the ground below his feet. Grabbing a shovel, the 59-year-old, of Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, digs out a small mound of earth and puts on a pair of surgical gloves to work through the soil. His fingers land on a muddy disk and after cleaning it he pockets it. His latest find is a penny dropped 100 years ago. "I have been metal detecting for six years and each time I go out I want to find something even more older and valuable," says Bill, a member of Bloxwich Research and Metal Detecting Club. "When I found a coin from 79AD I thought it doesn't get much better than this but then I found a 1500BC Bronze Age axe near Wolverhampton and a 48BC coin from Julias Ceasar's era, which was made in a travelling mint. "Then I like getting home and looking on the internet - it is an amazing feeling when you pick up a coin that someone dropped 2,000 years ago." This year Bloxwich Research and Metal Detecting Club celebrates its 30th anniversary. Read the full story in the Express & Star

News|Jan 18, 2008
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