Metal detecting

Darren Wiles receives a BCP Council community award for his work retrieving lost items.

Cameron Anderson was amazed to dig up all three parts of what is thought to be a Bronze Age axe head.

It also provides the first solid bit of evidence of Vikings in this part of Essex, says an expert.

Metalworkers would collect scraps 2,000 years ago and turn them into something new, an expert says.

Reporter Nicola Goodwin tells the Herefordshire Hoard tale in Strange But True Crime on BBC Sounds.

Karl Monks believes detecting is "the best hobby in the world” for recovery from addiction.

The mourning ring was made in memory of Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy, who died in a hunting accident.

Sir Clement Heigham persecuted East Anglian Protestants in Mary Tudor's reign, says historian.