29th June 2005, 09:44 AM
Sinister.....? Have we really got nothing better to worry about. Surely thsi amateur interest should be encouraged not condemned, and anyway all this information is, as BAJR states surely available elsewhere. As for being used by 'County Archaeology Departments', the guy is probably pushing his sales pitch a step too far, then again he may mean county units, although why they would want to use his resource rather than the local SMR/HER, I dunno. Maybe he doesn't charge ?50 an hour (+ random VAT) for the pleasure???