relic hunter

I see a lot of posts where people use different words to identify what they are. Relic hunter, treasure hunter, amateur archaeologist, metal detectorist, amateur collector. Are relic hunters out for high value stuff, same for treasure hunter? Relic and treasure hunter sound way more exciting...

Hello fellow diggers- My buddy Dave & I and another new "digger" were detecting yesterday at a site in the western part of Virginia that was a known Union encampment for almost the duration of the entire war. An although this site has been detected hard, no site is completely ever detected...