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Mars Veles metal detector – a powerful tri-frequency detector with digital signal processing

The Mars Veles is a metal detector featuring direct digital DSP signal processing, six search modes and a wide range of customisable settings. Selectable operating frequencies (via coils) of 6, 12 and 24 kHz allow the detector to be tailored for searching for deeper coins, common historical artefacts and even very small targets. The Veles offers both automatic and manual ground balance, five-tone audio, adjustable tone break, a special depth mode and the MDLink wireless system included as standard. The basic package comes with a large, versatile Super Tiger 12 kHz search coil.

The most beautiful find with a metal detector, September 2026 – shortlist

Although there’s still one more day of voting left in the August competition, I’d say the result is pretty much decided, and as the qualifying round only runs until Monday morning, we’ll go ahead and launch it today.

The most beautiful find with a metal detector in August 2026

August brought a number of wonderful finds and several truly beautiful pieces, which was reflected in the voting, where there are several clear favourites.

A hoard of gold and silver dating from the Second World War was discovered whilst a house was being built

Construction workers in Włocławek, Poland, have discovered a hoard comprising almost 400 valuable items. These include precious stones, gold and silver jewellery, cutlery, watches, parts of candlesticks, gold coins and securities.

He found a Roman denarius with his metal detector; in the end, there were 45 of them, plus a gold ring

The find comes from the vicinity of the Tofta military training area on Gotland. Archaeologists were carrying out research there in connection with the expansion of the military base. The first coins were discovered by metal detectorist Daniel Klintholm of the Swedish Armed Forces.

A metal detectorist found three kilos of Roman denarii

Amateur archaeologist Oliver Riedl has discovered a hoard of nearly a thousand silver Roman denarii in a field near Wesseling in Germany. Weighing over 3 kilograms, it is the largest hoard from that period ever found in Germany. 

Lecture by Naďa Profantová: We may not even know if Sámo was his name

What do we actually know today about Samo’s Kingdom, its extent, the people who lived there, or the legendary Battle of Wogastisburg? Archaeologist Naďa Profantová is piecing together a picture of 7th-century Central Europe from a few sentences in written sources and an ever-growing number of archaeological finds. In this article, you will find the full video recording of her lecture from the ‘Pátečníci’ series, which focuses on Samo, the Avars, the Slavs, long-distance trade and the extent to which Samo’s Empire actually forms part of Czech history.

Celtic silver coins of the Prague type have been found beneath a former sports ground in Thuringia

Archaeologists in the Thuringian village of Singen have found 2,000-year-old Celtic silver coins – known as ‘quinarii’. They made the discovery whilst carrying out excavations beneath a former sports ground, where a new fire station is due to be built.

He discovered a 3,000-year-old grave containing bracelets in the garden of his own house

Whilst carrying out excavation work on the grounds of a house in Uzbekistan, a local resident came across human remains and a large collection of elaborately decorated bronze jewellery. Archaeologists have provisionally dated them to the Late Bronze Age.

He was working in a field when he found a gold signet ring belonging to a noblewoman

Experts have managed to acquire a rare 14th-century gold signet ring. It was found by a local resident whilst carrying out farm work near Zlatograd in Bulgaria. It is believed to have belonged to the Byzantine aristocrat Maria Skulena.