i kinda get what i think is where you're coming to.

i have similar feelings about unexcavated sites. part of me wants them to be left until some real cool way of checking them inside out is invented which won't damage a single blade of glass, but then there's also the 19th century local vicar/amateur historian side of me who just wants to hire some local farmhands to dig the thing up because it might be full of shiney things.

thank goodness i don't know any farmhands, well apart from one but she's a lesbian who milks cows and so i don't know whether her digging technique would be up to much.