He roamed battlefields all over the South, scouring them with a World War II mine detector that would ... wrote a poem about his brother Tom's relic hunting that is also, ultimately, about their ...

In this thrilling episode of History Seekers, what began as a peaceful silver coin hunt turned into an unforgettable relic discovery—an actual WWII M69 mortar round buried deep in the ground.

Blue, who grew up in Manassas and learned relic hunting from his father and grandfather, said he found the ring in 2005 with a metal detector but didn’t try in earnest to track down the soldier ...

He retired in 1998 and devoted most of his time to relic hunting. He was an avid reader, a Civil War raconteur and an amateur historian who watched History Channel programs over and over ...

Relic hunting is like ripping a page from a book, Randy Jones, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, told msnbc.com. Part of an an artifact's true value comes from the ...

Finding a Civil War buckle is always at the top of my wish list when relic hunting. I was part of small group of “diggers” that chased the bulldozers around Northern Virginia, trying to ...