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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.

"Around 2400 finders reported their finds to the Scheme"

No mention of whether they were all detectorists. I've assumed above that they are all detectorists which makes the non-recorders look (marginally) less like brazen thieves.

If we assume that is actually all recorders and that 68% of them are detectorists (given 68% of the finds are from detectorists), then the figures get scarier.

So lets play Ballpark Mathematics.
Assumptions:

- 14000 active detectorists
- 2400*0.68 = 1632 responsible detectorists
- 30,000 * 0.68 = 20400 finds reported by detectorists.

And so
(1632 / 14000) * 100 = 11.65% of detectorists are responsible

And (14000 / 1632) * 20400 = 175,000 finds found last year that weren't reported by detectorists.