The Searcher - July 2026

Exclusively, on our cover this month, is a find that at first glance looks like a Roman grot. Adrian Marsden looks at this potentially important find in detail and believes it could challenge the history that we know now.

Other exclusives are from two members of Team Searcher. Firstly, mudlarker Nicola White, who reports on three seal matrices from Alderney. The second, Matt Fenn, whose recent ‘Lucky Streak’ has found him Bronze Age gold, two Roman silver and 13 hammered coins! Also, Jonathan Brooks continues his prospecting trip, ‘Detecting Down Under’.

Our technical piece this month is the long-awaited field test on the Nokta Legend 2 by Neil Ham and Scott Sibbald. David Villanueva begins a new series on ‘Site Profiling’ in which Part 1 is ‘Reading the ground before you detect’. There’s of course, much more in between the covers of this issue to inspire and inform.

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