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What is a detectorist?

What is a detectorist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.
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If the farmer loses equipment, he can call on a metal detectorist to come and find it.
And today a metal detectorist is waiting to hear how much he will receive for unearthing the 1,900-year-old piggy bank in a field between Chepstow and Newport.
The haul was found by metal detectorist Terry Herbert, 55, just below the surface of a cultivated field in south Staffordshire in July.
The unique 1,600-piece Anglo-Saxon collection was unearthed by stunned metal detectorist Terry Herbert in July.
In April 2010, the Frome Hoard, one of the largest ever hoards of Roman coins discovered in Britain, was found by a metal detectorist.
The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan, discovered by a metal detectorist in Staffordshire in 2003, was made as a functional vessel and a souvenir.

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