Four years?
The depressing thing is that the Time Team discussion was started, I suspect, by a Treasure seeker (that forum is absolutely infested with them). Who else could it be, given the spelling and the appalling attitude:
"Why are English heritage so strick when in comes to digging up land etc...????"
And instead of him being smacked down he gets answered by a "Don't blame English Heritage" apologist.
Which one would YOU string up first?