detectorist

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The central London museum launched a fundraising appeal in October so it could permanently acquire the Tudor Heart, found by a metal detectorist in a Warwickshire field in 2019.

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In order to put the pedant on permanent display, the museum had to pay a reward to the metal detectorist who made the discovery and the owner of the land it was found on.

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Jason Price, an amateur metal detectorist, claimed he had unearthed the horse figurine in a field near Leasingham, Lincolnshire, in 2019 and was paid £5,000 so it could go on display in a museum.

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Lincoln Crown Court heard the authorities began to suspect that some of the 188 items submitted by Price had been "seeded" – terminology used in the detectorist community for being planted in the soil.

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The earliest known coin to be minted in Scotland almost 900 years ago has been acquired for the nation after it was found by a metal detectorist.

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