This is a terrible argument. Ploughing a field where there is a site can wreck it, yes. But objects don’t go that far and often the site remains well enough below ground or visible from the air that keeping the objects in situ and reporting immediately is still best practicehttps://twitter.com/boggywood/status/1115342878283313155 …
And these people know the law, and they know they are breaking it. They try their hardest to circumvent it.
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Part 1: Listen please stop putting out the NMI's Version of the Law. As with all laws they are open to interpretation, The Majority of Metal Detectorist operate within the actual law and absolutely do not condone the action of this bad actor. https://bit.ly/2Utfn9p
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Part 2: It is legal to own/use a metal detector on a beach or on land with the land owners permission as long as you are not within the vicinity of a national/archeological site. This Point has been validated by the minister of the Gaelteacht and heritage on several occasions.
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& it's quite funny to see people using the same tired arguments that were used decades ago. I also said the vast majority of finds were small - not big hoards - it is frankly nonsensicle to treat a field that's been ploughed for a thousand years as