28th December 2005, 02:41 PM
Ah... Paul Barford... he may make some good points... but sadly after some rather offensive remarks he made about me I have filtered him on my email... so I never see his comments.
Gary has made a realistic and sensible post... what we need to do is react to how and why we feel the way we do... both detectorists and archaeologists should understand the other and see why they feel the way they do..... then discuss how this came about.... listen to each other and draw a line under it.... moving forward is the only option.
Gary points out clearly the nub of the disagreements... neither MD or archaeolgosit should try to justify or get defensive over practices that when we look at them from a neutral standpoint do not make sense...
Lets look at these aspects from our own perspective and then work out the best way forward.
ie.... can any archaeolgoists explain why stripping the topsoil with a JCB is not bad practice..... but removing artecats from same topsoil is.
theres a start.
Another day another WSI?
Gary has made a realistic and sensible post... what we need to do is react to how and why we feel the way we do... both detectorists and archaeologists should understand the other and see why they feel the way they do..... then discuss how this came about.... listen to each other and draw a line under it.... moving forward is the only option.
Gary points out clearly the nub of the disagreements... neither MD or archaeolgosit should try to justify or get defensive over practices that when we look at them from a neutral standpoint do not make sense...
Lets look at these aspects from our own perspective and then work out the best way forward.
ie.... can any archaeolgoists explain why stripping the topsoil with a JCB is not bad practice..... but removing artecats from same topsoil is.
theres a start.
Another day another WSI?