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It all started during a simple game of hide and seek. Digger Dawn, metal detector expert and YouTuber, was tasked with waiting for her friends to hide so she could seek. While waiting, she discovered something that would ignite a lifelong passion. “As I was counting, I was sticking my foot into the mud and was on a building site at the time. So the ground has been dug up. And as I was digging the foot in the ground, I saw a little bit of glint of gold come out of the ground and I pulled it out,” Dawn said. It was a coin from 1780. And it was a George the Third gold spade guinea.She didn’t know what she’d uncovered at the time, but according to Dawn, “It just set me off, it set my imagination off...I always used to look at things and wonder what was that? I didn't know anybody to, you know, go ask about metal detecting or I didn't even know where there was any metal detecting shops or anything in those days,” Dawn said.Today, Dawn hosts a YouTube channel that provides the resources she didn’t have access to as a child. She originally started her channel as a way to record and save her memories of her time spent metal detecting, “I didn't really think anybody looked at YouTube, I thought you have to have some sort of special knowledge,” Dawn explained. Fast forward and the YouTube channel she started for her only her own enjoyment, began to pick up steam. “I was absolutely shocked that people started watching it. You know I really can't believe it,” Dawn noted.Dawn loves sharing her experiences with other passionate metal detectors, “It fills me with a lot of joy actually, because I get such lovely comments off people and emails telling me you know, how they've been down and have cheered them up, or how I’ve helped them learn. Or all the tips that I've tried to share and things in the language that they can understand, because I try to keep things simple and yeah, I just I love my YouTube channel to be honest with you,” Dawn said.