Metal Detecting History Podcast

Welcome back to the Detecting History Podcast!After a long, hot and very dry summer, we're back and this time Katie isn't going it alone.Welcome to Murray Price from the Bearded Bleepers, our brand-new co-host for Series 4!Katie and Murray kick off a brand-new era of Detecting History with a proper catch-up on what they've been up to over the summer, including museum exhibitions, rallies, BBC Sounds, Treasure Hunting magazine, some incredible finds and, unfortunately for Murray, the invention of "Swinger's Hip"!Katie also talks about getting back out detecting after surgery, her first proper detecting trip, finding one of her farmer's missing drill points and getting to grips with her new XP IconX.Then it's time for the news.The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has had a major website upgrade, and Katie and Murray take a look at the new system, the guidance available to detectorists and some of the questions surrounding how finds submitted through the new website will be reviewed.We also discuss the National Council for Metal Detecting (NCMD) and its work with the All-Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group and Historic England, including the new inquiry looking at organised metal detecting events, club digs and rallies.And then we get into one of the big issues affecting detectorists: metal detecting permissions. What happens when another group approaches a landowner who already has a detectorist on their land? Is there an unwritten code of conduct that detectorists should follow? And could there be a better way for people to work together?Murray also shares his detecting reading recommendations, including Found in the Ground and The Accidental Detectorist.We then have a fantastic treasure find to discuss: Chris Langston's 17th-century memento mori locket, commemorating the execution of Charles I.And that's not all.New feature: Forgotten HistoryKatie launches a brand-new feature exploring lesser-known people, events and objects from history.This week's forgotten story is the extraordinary life of Jeffrey Hudson a man born in 1619 who became part of the household of Queen Henrietta Maria, survived pirates, travelled across Europe, became a soldier, fought a duel and eventually spent years enslaved before returning to England.New feature: The Murray ReviewMurray also launches his first review segment, taking a look at the Composite Cleaning Pencils field cleaning tool and demonstrating how it can be used to clean archaeological finds.Plus, Murray shares one of his own finds: a James II gun money half crown, made during the Williamite War period.And, of course, we're asking YOU to get involved.Have you found an amazing object? A strange object? Something you can't identify? Have you got a great detecting story — or perhaps a spooky one?Send us your finds, photos, stories and voice notes.📧 Email: detectinghistorychannel@gmail.com📱 WhatsApp: 07457 410 889You can send us a voice note, photograph or short video. Mystery objects are particularly welcome we're going to see how good Katie and Murray really are at identifying them!Whether you're a metal detectorist, bottle digger, fossil hunter, beachcomber, magnet fisher or simply someone who loves uncovering history, we'd love to hear from you.Detecting History for history hunters everywhere.Find MurrayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BeardedBleepersMetalDetectingWebsite: https://beardedbleepers.co.uk/Find KatieYoutube Metal Detecting with Katie UKFollow Detecting HistoryInstagram: @detectinghistorychannelFacebook: Detecting History ChannelTikTok: @detectinghistorychannel10% off some items at Regton Metal Detectors using promo code DHPodcast.

Katie is back with a solo summer catch-up packed with metal detecting news, history and channel updates.In this episode: a huge well done to the 100th episode giveaway winners and a thank you to Swing and Dig, The Etching Booth, Composite Cleaning Pencil and Regton for their brilliant prize support. If you missed the Kenneth Collard (Tales from the Foreshore) interview, Katie explains exactly why you need to go back and listen to it.Big channel news: The Detectorists on the Detectorists episodes have moved to their own dedicated sister podcast. Search for it on your podcast player and subscribe.From the world of detecting: Brian Dixon and Michael Eakers made the BBC News after finding a Roman hoard in Devon, 97 silver coins and six copper alloy coins spanning more than 200 years of Roman history from Mark Antony to Septimius Severus. And tech fans will want to know all about the brand new XP Icon and Icon X, the lightweight, fully wireless, multi-frequency mid-range detectors from XP.Katie also recommends Treasure Trails (treasuretrails.co.uk) for history lovers who want to explore their local area, shares a TV recommendation in Lucy Worsley Investigates Series 3, and goes deep on one of English history's most haunting mysteries: what really happened to the Princes in the Tower?Plus a shoutout to Gary in Kenya and a personal update from Katie on what the summer break has in store.Watch the full interviews and Katie's dig diaries on YouTube at youtube.com/@detectinghistorychannel | Find Detecting History on Instagram and YouTube at @detectinghistorychannel | Use code DHPodcast at Regton.com for 10% off some items.

This week's episode is a special one as its the 100th one! Our guest is very special too....! Actor Kenneth Collard, known to this community as the Mayor from the BBC series The Detectorists, and to a wider audience from Cuckoo, House of the Dragon, The Capture and most recently Beyond Paradise. But Kenneth has been a detectorist since the early 1980s, long before any of those credits, starting out with a basic C-scope in the forests of Germany and chasing that coin-shaped thrill ever since.During lockdown, Kenneth picked up his Equinox 800 and turned to the Thames foreshore, barely getting his PLA permit before the system closed. He has been learning to read the foreshore ever since, mentored by experienced mudlarks and working alongside his now great friend Carrie from Carry On Larkin.In this episode Kenneth talks about filming The Detectorists alongside Mackenzie Crook, the tobacco pipe bowl depicting an African man that was displayed in the Museum of London Docklands Secrets of the Thames exhibition alongside a cowry shell Kenneth found at the same moment, and his all-time top find, which has nothing to do with history and everything to do with being in the right place at the right time.He also shares his plans to develop a mudlarking TV show, talks about the Spanish Ardite minted in Barcelona for a child king and a Peruvian silver two reals found on the same stretch of foreshore, and signs off with one of the most genuinely motivating closers this podcast has had.Watch the full interview version of this episode from 6:30pm on YouTube at youtube.com/@detectinghistorychannel | Find Detecting History on Instagram and YouTube at @detectinghistorychannel | Use code DHPodcast at Regton.com for 10% off some items.

Jamie and Erin from Bottles from the Deep join Katie to talk about loch larking, their unique hobby of snorkeling in Scottish lochs to find Victorian bottles, ceramics and all sorts of historical treasures.Jamie shares the story of finding a rare WWII Colt Commando revolver in a loch, discovering a scattered medieval coin hoard whilst metal detecting dating to around 1307 with coins from Alexander III, John Balliol and Edward I, and a secret Bronze Age hoard found just one week earlier. Erin talks about their favourite finds including Codd marble bottles, Staffordshire Flow Blue ceramics, cocaine-infused Victorian wine bottles and why every loch in Scotland seems to have a teapot in it.They also cover how they research new lochs using the National Library of Scotland maps, LiDAR and old fishing spots, plus Jamie's journey into metal detecting with his Minelab Equinox 600. Find Jamie and Erin on both YouTube and Instagram @bottlesfromthedeep.Watch the full interview version of this episode from 6:30pm on YouTube at youtube.com/@detectinghistorychannel | Find Detecting History on Instagram and YouTube at @detectinghistorychannel | Use code DHPodcast at regton.com for 10% off some items.

What's been happening in the world of UK metal detecting in 2026? In this solo episode, Katie rounds up the biggest stories so far this year and announces the Detecting History 100th episode giveaway competition.First up, the Melsonby Hoard goes on public display at the Yorkshire Museum from 15 May. Over 800 Iron Age objects including the first evidence of four-wheeled wagons in Britain. Then we look at the Portable Antiquities Scheme's record-breaking year with over 79,000 finds recorded, and why your local Finds Liaison Officer needs your support more than ever.We also cover the Great Baddow Hoard, 933 Iron Age gold coins now secured for the Museum of Chelmsford, but with a cautionary tale about what happens when you detect without permission. That leads into the rise of nighthawking, with Humberside Police reporting increased illegal detecting on protected land.On the brighter side, the Chew Valley Hoard's incredible journey from field to national tour shows the system working as it should. And a father and son's Anglo-Saxon find in Lincolnshire has inspired an entire jewellery collection.Plus, Katie announces the 100th episode giveaway with prizes from Regton, The Etching Booth, Composite Cleaning Company, and S&D Detectorist.ENTER THE COMPETITION Go to @detectinghistorychannel on Instagram, like the competition post, share it on your stories, comment "100" and subscribe to our YouTube channel. UK only. Details on the post.LINKS AND RESOURCES Melsonby Hoard exhibition: yorkshiremuseum.org.uk Report your finds: finds.org.uk Report nighthawking: call 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111SPONSORS AND PARTNERS Regton: regton.com (use Katie's affiliate discount code DHPODCAST) The Etching Booth: www.instagram.comthe_etching_booth Composite Cleaning Company www.cleaningpencil.com and https://snddetectorist.comCONNECT WITH DETECTING HISTORY YouTube: Detecting History Channel Instagram: @detectinghistorychannelIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps new listeners find the show.

UK metal detecting podcast. This week Katie is joined by Lewis from lewis_detects on Instagram, an Oxfordshire-based detectorist with seven years of experience finding hammered coins, Roman artefacts and medieval silver across the fields of southern England.Lewis talks through his best metal detecting finds: a Roman brooch, a cut half Stephen penny, and a 1636 Charles I shilling found at a historical drama film set, found next to an ancient tree on a brilliant signal. He also shares how he runs his Deus metal detector completely screen-free on tones only, and why he always chooses ploughed fields over pasture.Topics covered include how to get metal detecting permissions from landowners, using LiDAR for research, the PAS database at finds.org, the National Library of Scotland side-by-side maps with GPS, and the pros and cons of club digs versus solo permissions.Lewis's bucket list: Gold, Roman gold, and a complete Saxon penny.Katie also announces a giveaway for the 100th episode with prizes from Regton, The Etching Booth, Swing and Dig Detectorist and Composite Cleaning Pencil.Watch the full interview version of this episode from 6:30pm on YouTube at youtube.com/@detectinghistorychannel | Find Detecting History on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube at @detectinghistorychannel | Use code DHPodcast at regton.com for 10% off some items.

This week Katie sits down with Sam Willoughby, known on Instagram as the_peaky_larker, a Kent-based mudlarker, metal detectorist and self-described archaeo-detectorist who bridges both worlds with the kind of knowledge and ethics that makes you want to get outside immediately.Sam shares how furlough in 2020 sent him to the banks of the Medway and eventually onto the Thames foreshore itself, where he waited 18 months for his Port of London Authority permit. He talks about upgrading from a Garrett ACE 150 to the Minelab Xterra Pro, why a 6-inch coil is non-negotiable on the foreshore, and how he became the only detectorist on an active Roman site in an elderly couple's back garden that has now yielded around 30 Roman coins.There are finds too. A late Tudor buckle dug from a new permission while still recovering from a cold. A minuscule Hudson's Bay Company trade bead, red and black, manufactured in Britain and traded with indigenous peoples in North America for fur pelts. And one weird discovery that turned out to be a Victorian bedpan with a hospital crest, which Sam very wisely gave to a friend.The conversation also covers the Dove's typeface mystery, the ethics of mudlarking on the foreshore, Thames Explorer Trust exhibitions, and a farmer near Richborough Roman Fort who took matters into his own hands with a bucket of copper nails.Find Sam on Instagram at @peakylarkerWatch the full interview version of this episode from 6:30pm on YouTube at youtube.com/@detectinghistorychannel | Find Detecting History on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube at @detectinghistorychannel | Use code DHPodcast at regton.com for 10% off some items.

Emma Youell (https://www.instagram.com/emloveoldstuff/) is back, and she has had quite a couple of years.Since her last appearance on the podcast, Emma has ticked off not one but two items from her detecting bucket list finding two Iron Age quarter staters and a potent within just a couple of months. Three Celtic coins. Extraordinary.But that's just the start. Emma has been quietly doing some of the most important work in the hobby right now, creating video content for the National Council for Metal Detecting, including a film about Scottish treasure law and a deep dive into the brand new NCMD app. She shares the incredible story of how one detectorist used that app to track his Roman finds across a map... and accidentally discovered an entire hidden Roman road.Emma also opens up about her work as a PAS self-recorder, her ongoing involvement with Time Team (including an upcoming dig at a Roman site in Brancaster, Norfolk), and how she found out her animations were going to appear on a Channel 4 show via a phone call received while standing in a Lincolnshire field mid-dig.Plus her Kent Women in Business award win, her obsession with the musical Epic, and a round of Would You Rather that gets surprisingly philosophical.Watch the full interview version of this episode from 6:30pm on YouTube at youtube.com/@detectinghistorychannel. Find Detecting History on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@DetectingHistoryChannel | Use code DHPodcast at https://regton.com/ for 10% off some items.