Treasure Hunting

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.