The Searcher - December 2023

What’s new in this issue?

Our exclusive Bronze Age gold find on the cover this month was unearthed by Martin Colclough in Lancashire. It’s the largest example of this type of torc with penannular rings recorded on the PAS database. Martin describes the events which unfolded on the day of this great discovery.

Other exclusives include more Bronze Age gold recovered from a Medieval Fair site by Michael Gallon and Michael Lewis also reveals the winners of the 2022 Nations’ Greatest Finds Competition. Dr Adrian Marsden continues his series on 17th Century tokens, this time looking at how they were made and Ted Fletcher researches zoomorphic coins and artefacts.

Also in this issue, Daniel Spencer field tests Minelab’s X-Terra PRO and also reviews the new XP XTREM HUNTER.