The Searcher - August 2026

What’s new in this issue?

We have a glut of Bronze age gold in this issue for you! Exclusively on the cover, Alan Daniels and Andy Crammond share their excitement of discovering THREE Bronze Age torc bracelets on a rally in Carlisle. PLUS, Mike Thomas unearths one very similar in Wales too!

Highlights in this issue include the long-awaited winners of our Nations’ Greatest Finds Competition, Lukus Merriman shares his finds from his ‘Field of Dreams’, Kevin Hopper reveals a lovely silver-gilt pilgrim’s badge and the Ninth Region MD find their ninth hoard!

This month’s Field Techniques article by Neil Ham and Scott Sibbald covers ‘The battle against discrimination’, which definitely busts a few urban myths too. David Villanueva continues his mini-series on Site Profiling with Pt. 2: Building a picture from your finds, and Adrian Marsden takes an in-depth look at Victorian tokens. Of course, there’s a lot more between the covers to inspire and inform you.