Buy a metal detector and go on a treasure hunt? Unfortunately it’s not that easy. In Schleswig-Holstein, prospective amateur archaeologists learn how to use a probe and spade – and when they’d rather run away.
want! Might! ugh! beep! peeep! A cacophony of computer game sounds fills the morning landscape. Around 40 men and a handful of women in outdoor clothing wave their metal probes over the meadow on the banks of the Schlei near Schleswig, which is still damp in the morning dew. Not everyone has headphones connected to the device, so the detectors trumpet their characteristic noises into nature.