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.
I don’t really recall since it has also been awhile. But IRL metal detectorists just dig stuff up and disturb sites anyway, so even if the fictional ones don’t it still sort of legitimizes it. I know people who use the show as justification.
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Well, that's terrible :( I worked in Crete too and there's terrible looting there of Cycladic burials.
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There's a whole group of metal detectorists who try to find ways to flout the law and it's very frustrating. I don't think anything has been looted that we know of, but even just finding a coin hoard is dangerous because often they get removed from in situ.
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