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juamei J
juamei Aug 2, 2005 13:47:07
Replying to venicone

Thats over 7 years though.

With the scheme only covering the whole of the UK from 2003, any idea how many of those have been in the last calendar year say?

If we also knew the number of detectorists x average number of reportable finds found in a year, we'd have some idea of the number of finds disapearing off the radar.

C Cheshireman
Cheshireman Aug 2, 2005 14:17:47
Replying to juamei

How do you work that out?

P Pilgrim
Pilgrim Aug 2, 2005 14:24:07
Replying to juamei

From The Portable Antiquities Scheme website (http://www.finds.org.uk/news/hawkshead.php)

Hawkshead review of the Portable Antiquities Scheme 2004

<i>"Phase 2 of the Portable Antiquities Scheme in 2003-04……………………Around 30,000 finds were recorded: 68% were reported by detectorists and 32% by others"</i>

I presume "others" to include the full range of archaeologists?

<i>"Taking part in 252 finds days attended by over 13,000 people"</i>

and……

<i>"Around 2400 finders reported their finds to the Scheme"</i>

From the report: (http://www.finds.org.uk/documents/PAS_Review_Report_Final.pdf)

"FLOs will have been in regular contact with around 4250 club-based metal detectorists in 2003-04. To place this in context, Treasure Hunting magazine has a circulation of <b>14,000</b> which provides some index to the size of the population of interested public."

Now, for a worse case scenario, what's 14,000 divided by 2,400 and expressed as a ratio?


Pilgrim

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