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 …
Oh look, a man who was persecuted for metal detecting on a beach? So it IS illegal. Fact. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/metal-detector-man-on-beach-is-fined-500-27122324.html …
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Please read other stories, not just your handpicked ones. Take the one of 14 yr old Conor, BULLIED by a senior museum director. The NMI didn't put that story out. Or the people who have had lost jewellery returned. Detectorists are not the problem, it's the bad few.
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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