3rd December 2005, 12:33 AM
Cheers for all the info Steve, interesting reading. I generally have nothing against metal detectorists and have worked alongside them on a few sites, including one where a detectorist located and I dug 4 Roman coins from within a one metre square patch. However, I was speaking to a detectorist on a site a couple of weeks ago who said that he has detected objects and dug them to find he is also ending up with bone on his shovel, and while I was talking to him he got a phonecall from a detectorist friend who had dug for an object and ended up finding a burial. I am concerned that a lot of detectorists would not recognise when the bone is human and therefore when they have located (and potentially disturbed) a burial. What is your view on this and what would you suggest could be done to alleviate my concerns?
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++