27th May 2005, 04:45 PM
I did a monitoring visit last year to find a private sector contractor excavating a saxon burial ground using a staff of 6 untrained metal detectorists using spoons. I like to think I was overly dogmatic with him. I also know of a MIFA curator up north( now retired) who dugs SAMs of a weekend for treasure. Archaeologists are a cross section of society, thats all.