Posts Tagged With: dowsing

Ten Leagues from Land’s End: Re-examining the Mystery of the Merchant Royal

Posted on March 18, 2026 by David

On 23 September 1641 an English treasure ship vanished somewhere beyond the Cornish horizon. The Merchant Royal was said to be carrying bullion and jewels worth a king’s ransom. Contemporary reports valued the cargo at around £400,000 — an enormous fortune in the seventeenth century and one of the richest losses ever recorded in British […]

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Metal Detecting Tip: Learn to Dowse

Posted on March 11, 2026 by David

Dowsing—sometimes called divining or water-witching—is an old practice traditionally used to locate water, minerals, or other hidden features beneath the ground. The technique usually involves a simple tool such as a forked stick, a pendulum, or a pair of metal rods which respond to subtle movements as the dowser walks across the land. While most […]

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Dowsing for detectorists

Posted on March 7, 2023 by David

PART II: FINDING THE TARGET In a previous post we learned the basics of L-rod dowsing. https://www.truetreasurebooks.net/dowsing-for-detectorists-part-1-the-l-rod  Now we are going to put your new skills to practical use in improving the quantity and quality of your detecting finds. Firstly though, many of you probably want to know how to both dowse and recover targets […]

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Gold!

Posted on August 27, 2014 by David

I switched back to baiting the Anderson PMR-II with pure silver on the basis that it should cover almost the entire spectrum of desirable finds, including solid gold, while reducing the apparent sensitivity to gold plate. It worked! It wasn’t long before I was holding an Iron Age gold stater coin, which I had dug […]

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