21st December 2005, 12:45 PM
john-1504 wrote (on another thread)..
Not as far as I am aware. A metal-detectorist is a metal-detectorist. He stops being non-intrusive (and therefore stops having the sympathy of archaeologists) as soon as he puts his spade in the ground and removes a metallic artefact from its context without stratigraphic recording.
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To me, a metal detectorist is an archaeologist that specialises in the use of a particular non-intrusive shallow depth technique.
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I am curious to know if this is this the general view of detectorists as held by archaeologists?
Not as far as I am aware. A metal-detectorist is a metal-detectorist. He stops being non-intrusive (and therefore stops having the sympathy of archaeologists) as soon as he puts his spade in the ground and removes a metallic artefact from its context without stratigraphic recording.