scubi63 wrote:
Interesting report on the BBC news this morning about illegal metal detecting.
In the report Joe Cowley quite bravely confronts two of them walking away from the scene.
A short part of the report can be found here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8346965.stm
I believe there is going to be a full piece on Inside-Out South tonight that should be available on iPlayer for those outside the area.
I watched this with interest Scubi, thank you. These people are clearly in the wrong or they would not need the cover of darkness to do what they are doing, though personally I find these confrontational 'gotcha' programmes that the BBC seem to specialise in, a bit tedious.
The whole question of metal detectoring is a different matter though. Thankfully, by and large the archaeological world has stopped vilifying detectorists and started to some extent working with them which why the Portable Antiquities Finds Scheme was set up. Without some of the truly amazing finds such as in Staffordshire and more recently near Stirling, our knowledge of the ancient world would surely be less.
http://www.finds.org.uk/
