{"id":8539,"date":"2016-08-29T15:10:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?page_id=8539"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:23:01","slug":"detecting-britain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?page_id=8539","title":{"rendered":"Every Find tells a Story!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a wonderful story the land has to tell!<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I\u2019ve wanted a metal detector since I was a boy, reading comic books and dreaming of lost pirate treasure. When I finally received one for my birthday a few years ago, I couldn\u2019t wait to get started. Of course, you can\u2019t just run outside and start digging\u2014there are permissions, memberships, and national databases to navigate. But those necessary steps are simply the groundwork for a far more rewarding adventure.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I should tell you right away that you won’t find Roman hoards, Spanish pieces of eight, or gold bullion on this blog. What you will find are the real treasures: the everyday bits and pieces of life from centuries gone by. A simple coin, a broken bit of pottery, a humble button\u2014each one is a fascinating artifact that hasn’t seen the light of day in a hundred years or more. My imagination runs rampant as I try to piece together the life of the person who once owned it, and how it came to rest just beneath my feet.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I hope you find these stories as interesting as I do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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My detecting journey; “Every Find Tells a Story” is now available as an Ebook on Amazon<\/a>, and monthly in the Dun Valley Magazine.<\/a><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Find 1: Pewter school bell<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 2: A glimpse of Roman turmoil<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 3: The Bovine Barrier<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 4: The Glorious First of June<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 5: First Hole Silver!<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 6: The Highs and Lows of Metal Detecting<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 7: Laundry Day, 1936 <\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 8: The Dagger out of Time<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 9: The Weight of the Mystery<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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Find 10: Nearly 3 grams, nearly 4 millennia<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

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What a wonderful story the land has to tell! I\u2019ve wanted a metal detector since I was a boy, reading comic books and dreaming of lost pirate treasure. When I finally received one for my birthday a few years ago, I couldn\u2019t wait to get started. Of course, you can\u2019t just run outside and start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PDxlf-2dJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":199,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15084,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8539\/revisions\/15084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}