Currently looking at the finds from Sutton Hoo, and I’m surprised how much stuff survived the looting. Also glad the looters somehow missed getting into the centre of Mound 1.
Lol. My mom made me watch it and I struggled with enjoying it (because I did!) versus my hatred of people who use metal detectors without archaeological approval.
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I think the show did well in that they weren't rogue hunters but that economic and class circumstances had kept them from being able to be the archaeologists they wanted to be. I think they had respect for what they were doing. But maybe I'm too soft in my interpretation.
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I get that but metal detectorists destroy archaeological sites. It's why they are illegal in Ireland. So it's hard for me to square that with the fiction. And there are economic and class barriers to consider, definitely, but IRL there are a lot of community archaeology things
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