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UK detectorists getting bad press.
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Posted : Thursday, 5 September 2013 6:41:45 PM(UTC)
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My greatest fear is that when I die my wife will sell my collection for what I told her it cost me.
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Posted : Thursday, 5 September 2013 7:25:00 PM(UTC)
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Sounds like some archaeologists are sucking lemons because they are being shown up.

The UK has the most inspired metal detecting regulations I have heard off - if you find something then it is registered and the museums have first call to buying it off you at market value. If they don't want it then you can sell privately. Plus the land owner gets a half share of the finds.

Here we get to keep it all (apart from any agreement with the land owner) but there is no record of the find, and the history of the area remains unknown. In the UK amateur metal detectorists have discovered historical areas that archaeologists would never have come across themselves. The Saxon Hoard is one example. Yes the register is producing a mass of data but just because some arch's can't keep up with it is no reason to ban detecting.
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Posted : Thursday, 5 September 2013 7:58:21 PM(UTC)
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Right. And the museums are doing fine out of it. Imagine how much it would cost to replace those 10,000 odd detectorists* with 10,000 archaeologists and pay them to find the same amount of stuff. And they wouldn't find the same amount of stuff anyway.

*Two ways of reading that sentence.
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Posted : Thursday, 5 September 2013 9:59:55 PM(UTC)
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Oh for fu.... sake... good luck banning ten thousand coil swingers...
Fkn beardy idiot.
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