Milly Hardwick,13 with her metal detector out in a field near her home in Suffolk .See SWNS Cambridge copy SWCAdig:A 13-year-old metal detectorist is scaring off veteran diggers after she found a "once in a lifetime" Bronze Age axe hoard on just her third dig. Milly Hardwick, who's in Year 8 at school, has left the competition envious of her "beginners luck" as she strikes gold almost every week. She's now become a poster girl for metal detecting despite being some four decades younger than the typical detectorist.