![]() Relic hunters tend to use metal detectors. ![]() Surface hunters gather what has leached from the earth or what may have been churned up by, say, farm or construction equipment. Amateur archaeology is a thriving hobby in America, with many types of collectors. Miller was what professional archaeologists deridingly call a pothunter, an amateur who seeks buried treasure. He loved to show off the items that he’d dug out of the ground and gathered over eight decades, regaling friends, Boy Scout troops, curators and reporters with stories of his global adventures. In the basement, glass cases and wooden shelves displayed some of what he’d amassed in a makeshift museum. “Then I walked into Don Miller’s house.” He had more than 42,000 items. “In my experience dealing with antiquities cases, a large private collection would have been 100 pieces,” Carpenter says. Inside, and squirreled away in outbuildings across his property, was one of the largest personal stores of cultural artifacts in the world, according to the FBI.
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