CONTENTS:

1. Origins and Growth of the Hobby of Treasure Hunting
2. Equipment, Code of Conduct and Treasure Trove
3. Principles and Characteristics of Metal Detectors
4. How to Search Houses and Gardens for Hoards and Small Finds
5. Descriptions and Locations of Hoards Found in Britain
6. Searching for Hoards and Other Objects in Commons, Fields, Farmland, Forests, Ponds and on Footpaths
7. Rivers and Tidal Estuaries: the Treasure Hunter’s Most Productive Sites
8. Beachcombing: How to Locate and Prospect on the Right Beaches
9. A Selection of British Beaches: Where and When to Search Them
10. Bottle Collecting
11. Portraits of Three English Treasure Hunters
12. Archeologists and Treasure Hunters: Their Strained Relations and Ways to Solve Them