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plural detectorists
A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc. quotations examples
Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.
2021 May 31, Alexandra Marvar, “The New Detectorists”, in The New York Times