Encouraging responsible metal detecting

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Pilgrim P
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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J juamei
juamei Aug 2, 2005 14:32:23
Replying to Pilgrim

Cracking, cheers Pilgrim!

So lets play Ballpark Mathematics.
Assumptions:
- 14,000 active detectorists
- 2,400 responsible detectorists
- 30,000 * 0.68 = 20,400 finds reported by detectorists last year


And so
(2400 / 14000) * 100 = 17.1% of detectorists are responsible

And (14000 / 2400) * 20400 = 119,000 finds found last year that weren't reported by detectorists.