How to Use detectorist in a Sentence

detectorist

noun
  • Proceeds from any sale are split between the detectorists and the landowner.
    — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • On that lucky day in 2019, the first coin the detectorists unearthed featured William’s likeness.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Metal detectorists have been able to count themselves lucky on many occasions throughout history.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • See them → Metal detectorists find ancient portrait in Danish field.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
  • See them → Metal detectorists find ancient portrait in Danish field.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2024
  • See it → Metal detectorist unearths 'one-of-a-kind' gold treasure from 1,400 years ago.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 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 metal detectorist found the ring in 2020, reports Arkeonews’ Oguz Kayra.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Last July, metal detectorists found a trove of ancient jewelry and gold coins near ruins in Hippos.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Metal detectorists visited a low embankment on Senja island a few years ago and unearthed two bronze buckles shaped like bowls.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • The Tudor jewel was discovered in a field by a metal detectorist in 2019.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Read More | Metal detectorists searching beach after storm find 2,500-year-old weapon.
    — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Read Next Metal detectorist stumbles on worn tool — and finds 5,000-year-old artifact.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
  • One of the most historic hoards ever found was discovered in England by a metal detectorist, called the Staffordshire Hoard.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • In the spring, a metal detectorist found a hoard of 1,469 Roman coins in the field of a small village in Romania.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Unassuming metal detectorists usually find them in areas that don’t normally attract tourists.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Metal detectorists in Norway unearthed a trove of ancient coins dating back to the Viking Age — the largest of its kind ever found in the country.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Nichols said the coin is relatively young, as Nantucket detectorists have found coins dating back to the 1650s on the island.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In 2016, another metal detectorist found a hoard of Viking artifacts.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2020
  • About two years ago, a metal detectorist unearthed a small gold pendant near the town of Attleborough in Norfolk, England.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Metal detectorists in western Wales found two lead ingots that date back to the Roman era, a Welsh museum said Tuesday.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The hoard was uncovered by a metal detectorist near the Church of Scotland in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • See it On the Isle of Man, a metal detectorist uncovered a rare 2,000-year-old spoon used in fortune-telling rituals.
    — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • A little over a year ago, a group of metal detectorists found a hoard of 21 coins in a field near Okehamption Castle in Devon, England.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The metal detectorist thought the objects were unusual and decided to mail them to the National Museum of Ireland.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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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