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"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.

Sorry forgot to state an assumption!

I'm assuming in both of the above that both non-reporters and reporters to PAS find stuff at the same rate.

I'm done.

As opposed to 600 finds reported by 60,000,000 members of the public (nigelswifts figures)

How many finds are unreported using these figures?