Paul Edgerton | DetectorForMetal

Railroad Metal Detecting: My Adventures Along Forgotten Tracks

Last summer, I spent three sweltering days exploring an abandoned Baltimore & Ohio line that cut through rural Ohio farmland. […]

I remember my first “real” find like it was yesterday. After months of pulling up bottle caps and rusty nails,

I first became fascinated with river crossing sites after finding a bent wagon pin near the banks of the North

I’ll never forget the first time I unearthed a brass button from the soil of an abandoned Illinois homestead. As

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These everyday objects tell intimate stories about security, personal possessions, and the changing technology of protection through the decades.

Metal detecting allows us to uncover the personal and fashion items that people carried, wore, and eventually lost throughout history.

My comprehensive collection of metal detecting finds includes numerous tools and implements that span decades, if not centuries, of human industry.

The ordinary household items we recover while metal detecting tell intimate stories about how people lived, worked, and built their surroundings.