May 31, 2019 15:00:00

Weekend Wanderers, a group of hunters searching for underground treasures using Google Earth and metal detectors

There are treasure hunters who are addicted to adventure novels such as “searching for treasures with maps and pickels in one hand”, and they travel around the world every day searching for buried gold and sunken ships deep in the seabed.

Google Earth, which provides free and free satellite images of the world, features Google Weekend Wanderers, a group that searches for ruins and treasures that sleep in the ground using Google Earth and metal detectors.

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You can also see the activities of Weekend Wanderers in the following movie:

How a metal detector and Google Earth are helping one man uncover the past-YouTube


In the south of England ...

A certain farmland.

One man is walking.

What men are holding ...

It is a metal detector.

When you switch on your device, a detection sound will be heard.

Put on headphones to keep it from listening to the sound ......

Men use metal detectors to explore farmland.

Apparently there was a reaction to the detector. Digging and ......

Silver coins used long ago were excavated. In most cases, it is said that it is often garbage such as beer cans, but it is said that sometimes ancient coins, jewelry, or ruins are excavated.

Peter Welch is a 'treasure hunter' who uses a metal detector to look for treasures and ruins that may be buried in the ground. When I used a metal detector to explore the Baba as a child, I found out that I found this Roman empire gold coin and jewellery, which led me to start this work.

After growing up, Mr. Welch formed a search club called “Weekend Wanderers”.

Weekend Wanderers, who conduct exploration around the world, are the largest exploratory clubs in the UK.

Weekend Wanderers not only find archaeological sites and treasures, but also investigate and preserve what they excavated, and aim to conduct research on history.

Of course, I do not know even if I stand and look at the ground where the treasures buried in the ground are. Therefore, Welch uses Google Earth to investigate

crop marks on farmland and to provide an idea of search locations.

Crop mark is a pattern that appears as unevenness on the land vegetation. Crop marks may be traces of ancient ruins, such as buildings and roads, and may be a hint for archaeological search. It is a crop mark that could not be seen before you took aerial photographs and surveyed it, but it seems that anyone using Google Earth can easily survey it.

In fact, based on a search by Google Earth, Weekend Wanderers, led by Welch, has discovered various artifacts such as parts of swords, ancient jewelry, horseshoes of the Roman era, etc. .

The biggest thing that Weekend Wanderers made was Christmas 2014. Having found a strange crop mark on Google Earth, Welch, along with the members of Weekend Wanderers, searched for the spot.

Then, one male member reportedly reported that 'coin has come out!'

If we look at a hole excavated by Mr. Welch ...

There were a large number of coins that would have been used by the

Anglo-Saxons . The total value is about 1.5 million pounds (about 200 million yen). Mr. Welch reported to the shepherd man who owned the farmland that 'coin has come out.' The excavated coins were later stored at the Buckinghamshire State Art Museum by the life of Queen Elizabeth.

'There is more land to explore. There may also be big discoveries that go beyond the discoveries of 2014. I'm sure it's not that much ahead,' said Welch, closing the movie. It was done.