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Nowt wrong with it - just those robbing nighthawker bastards giving genuine people interested in history a bad name!

Typical BBC arseholes - one week metal detecting bad (National Trust fops trying to ban it), then good (saxon find), then bad again (nighthawkers this morning )!!!

Just make everyone with a metal detector have a licence and lock the rest of em in clink for a few months :)

I'm probably not going to win any friends here but I think there's a lot of unnecessary fuss. It's important that people have the landowner's permission and of course there should be some serious responsibility if anything unusual is found. But something like another hoard of Roman coins does little to increase our knowledge of ancient history and without the opportunist detector they would most likely remain buried for another thousand years or be bulldozered up by property developers.