local tv: metal detectorists vs archaeologists lock

close
more_vert
cymap C
cymap May 30, 2007 09:12:00
Replying to moss

Perhaps you need to understand google to see why that has happened. It may have something to do with what Ebay pay google for adwords. As for being directed at me I have never sold one find, neither do I search for finds to sell.
You say about the figures being shameful. I do not see archeologists all over the countryside recovering these so called artifacts. So what happens when the plough and the power harrow gets them. I think you counter should actually say 9,000,000+ artifacts recovered and saved from destruction. Its a good job copper Georgian is not rare as I have about 100 that have been recovered and I cant see his portrait on any of them. Ruined by farming methods and erosion. Crotal bells , beehive thimbels, coinage, and other artifacts mangled and smashed to peices. Most of these finds may I add found in the top 6-8 inches plough soil.
Yes of course there are undesirables within the hobby and may I add in every walk of life(corrupt police officers, government officials, teachers,Military forces). But please dont be so niave as to tar us all with the same brush.

P Paul Barford
Paul Barford May 30, 2007 09:30:17
Replying to cymap

cymap wrote:
I think you counter should actually say 9,000,000+ artifacts recovered and saved from destruction.
Hello again. If collecting of artefacts and metal detecting was dependent on the registration of collections, how many of those nine million artefacts would actually be retrievable IN those extant collections?

Where are these objects now, and in what way - if nobody knows where they are or whether material metal detected in 1978 or 1983 actually still exists somewhere, is that actually "saving" them? Some objects (including funnily enough Durotrigian coins apparently from an unrecorded hoard) are turning up on Polish internet auction sites and being bought up by goodness-knows-who. Have they too been "saved"?

M Moth
Moth May 30, 2007 09:42:52
Replying to cymap

cymap wrote:
You say about the figures being shameful. I do not see archeologists all over the countryside recovering these so called artifacts. So what happens when the plough and the power harrow gets them. I think you counter should actually say 9,000,000+ artifacts recovered and saved from destruction.
As I said at http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=40918&message=512564 (ignored other than by an admittedly witty comment on the counter, which I hadn't even mentioned) that's why Heritage Action didn't originally call for a ban. And I've yet to hear why licencing would stop responsible detecting, even tho the question's been asked directly in that post & by others....

cymap wrote:
and may I add in every walk of life(corrupt police officers, government officials, teachers,Military forces). But please dont be so niave as to tar us all with the same brush.
Nobody has ever said that no detectorists are responsible, just that the number who aren't justifies regulation.

love

Moth