Katie is back with a solo summer catch-up packed with metal detecting news, history and channel updates.

In this episode: a huge well done to the 100th episode giveaway winners and a thank you to Swing and Dig, The Etching Booth, Composite Cleaning Pencil and Regton for their brilliant prize support. If you missed the Kenneth Collard (Tales from the Foreshore) interview, Katie explains exactly why you need to go back and listen to it.

Big channel news: The Detectorists on the Detectorists episodes have moved to their own dedicated sister podcast. Search for it on your podcast player and subscribe.

From the world of detecting: Brian Dixon and Michael Eakers made the BBC News after finding a Roman hoard in Devon, 97 silver coins and six copper alloy coins spanning more than 200 years of Roman history from Mark Antony to Septimius Severus. And tech fans will want to know all about the brand new XP Icon and Icon X, the lightweight, fully wireless, multi-frequency mid-range detectors from XP.

Katie also recommends Treasure Trails (treasuretrails.co.uk) for history lovers who want to explore their local area, shares a TV recommendation in Lucy Worsley Investigates Series 3, and goes deep on one of English history's most haunting mysteries: what really happened to the Princes in the Tower?

Plus a shoutout to Gary in Kenya and a personal update from Katie on what the summer break has in store.

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This week's episode is a special one as its the 100th one! Our guest is very special too....! Actor Kenneth Collard, known to this community as the Mayor from the BBC series The Detectorists, and to a wider audience from Cuckoo, House of the Dragon, The Capture and most recently Beyond Paradise. But Kenneth has been a detectorist since the early 1980s, long before any of those credits, starting out with a basic C-scope in the forests of Germany and chasing that coin-shaped thrill ever since.

During lockdown, Kenneth picked up his Equinox 800 and turned to the Thames foreshore, barely getting his PLA permit before the system closed. He has been learning to read the foreshore ever since, mentored by experienced mudlarks and working alongside his now great friend Carrie from Carry On Larkin.

In this episode Kenneth talks about filming The Detectorists alongside Mackenzie Crook, the tobacco pipe bowl depicting an African man that was displayed in the Museum of London Docklands Secrets of the Thames exhibition alongside a cowry shell Kenneth found at the same moment, and his all-time top find, which has nothing to do with history and everything to do with being in the right place at the right time.

He also shares his plans to develop a mudlarking TV show, talks about the Spanish Ardite minted in Barcelona for a child king and a Peruvian silver two reals found on the same stretch of foreshore, and signs off with one of the most genuinely motivating closers this podcast has had.

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Darren Searle and Rod from Gloucestershire Detectorists join Katie to tell the story of two finds that most detectorists will never experience in a lifetime of searching.

The first: a scattered Roman hoard where both Darren and Rod's very first signals on a brand new field turned out to be Roman coins. What followed was multiple return visits, over 400 coins recovered, a Roman silver ring and a Roman lead seal found by Rod that was nearly discarded as scrap and turned out to be unique in Britain.

The second: a hammered scattered hoard on a farm where the landowner had been openly sceptical about the hobby. The find included quarter nobles and half nobles, and eventually 26 hammered coins recovered over several visits. That one went to auction and found a home with an American historian who supports archaeological digs in the UK.

Darren also talks through their Minelab Manticore setup, the moment the Manticore picked up a deep gold hammered coin that the Nox 600 couldn't reach, how their relationship with their FLO made the Treasure Act process far smoother than most, and what is still on the bucket list including a gold stater and a gold Roman.

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