4th July 2005, 04:48 PM
Some quotes from the BBC?s Inside Out website:
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/seri...sure.shtml)
?But before you grab your trowel and head for the nearest field, take heed, unearthing a discovery is a complicated process, if you follow the correct channels that is!?
?Mike and Gordon followed such procedures (having found a hoard valued at ?290,000 by the BM) and after two years of complicated, bureaucratic wrangling, they each received ?89,000. "We did everything right and it seems as if we were punished."?
?So recovering a find may not be as easy as it first seems and there are some who chose to shun the legal route altogether in favour of a quicker, more profitable answer.
They are known in the business as ?nighthawks?.?
?You do everything by the book,does it work, no. Do you get a pat on the back, NO. You mention that you are a detectorist you are a condemned man , you have to wait years for your finds to be recorded and then if they have not been lost , you get half of what they are worth.? (Nightflyer, in the reader?s comments section)
?I have just started doing metal detecting and i think you should be able to go anywhere to do it.? ?The finds should belong to us all if you buy a detector and spend the time to find then they should be yours. Some of the items being found have been deposited before these people owned the land so what gives them the right to own them.? ?Finders keepers loser weepers.? (Steven, in the reader?s comments section)
?Night hawking is my one and only hobby and I absolutely love it. I got into metal detecting 2 years ago and basicly I am too late in the game to find any decent land in the day, so I have to night hawk.? (John, in the reader?s comments section)
As you see, this is the impression that no lesser an authority than the BBC are portraying, to me it implies that illegal detecting is a profitable pursuit. I am also highly critical of the ?Hidden Treasure? TV program for the way it emphasises the large amounts of money that can be made by detecting, which I think sends out the wrong message.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/seri...sure.shtml)
?But before you grab your trowel and head for the nearest field, take heed, unearthing a discovery is a complicated process, if you follow the correct channels that is!?
?Mike and Gordon followed such procedures (having found a hoard valued at ?290,000 by the BM) and after two years of complicated, bureaucratic wrangling, they each received ?89,000. "We did everything right and it seems as if we were punished."?
?So recovering a find may not be as easy as it first seems and there are some who chose to shun the legal route altogether in favour of a quicker, more profitable answer.
They are known in the business as ?nighthawks?.?
?You do everything by the book,does it work, no. Do you get a pat on the back, NO. You mention that you are a detectorist you are a condemned man , you have to wait years for your finds to be recorded and then if they have not been lost , you get half of what they are worth.? (Nightflyer, in the reader?s comments section)
?I have just started doing metal detecting and i think you should be able to go anywhere to do it.? ?The finds should belong to us all if you buy a detector and spend the time to find then they should be yours. Some of the items being found have been deposited before these people owned the land so what gives them the right to own them.? ?Finders keepers loser weepers.? (Steven, in the reader?s comments section)
?Night hawking is my one and only hobby and I absolutely love it. I got into metal detecting 2 years ago and basicly I am too late in the game to find any decent land in the day, so I have to night hawk.? (John, in the reader?s comments section)
As you see, this is the impression that no lesser an authority than the BBC are portraying, to me it implies that illegal detecting is a profitable pursuit. I am also highly critical of the ?Hidden Treasure? TV program for the way it emphasises the large amounts of money that can be made by detecting, which I think sends out the wrong message.