30th December 2005, 12:51 PM
No worries... was just using my usual tactless style of writing to make a point...
To be frank with you, and I am sure the other detectorists on here would agree, we would love to have a pottery expert on the forums to help with IDing (although probably not too easy to do online), This was discussed when I was a part of the UKDFD, but it was only the practicalities and lack of expertise that stopped us from at the time accepting pottery records...nothing to do with them not being metallic...
Pottery does play an important part of the hobby, we are by the very method of detecting, field walking eyes only at the same time and most of us collect pottery sherds, clay pipe stems etc...
Pre PAS days I have taken bags load of the stuff into my then County Museum for IDing...
There are a couple of books written for the hobby in respect of pottery.
Its quite bizarre but when I found the brass monkeys, the very next signal was a small, worn Roman bronze coin... not six inches away,but separated by 1800 years!
To be frank with you, and I am sure the other detectorists on here would agree, we would love to have a pottery expert on the forums to help with IDing (although probably not too easy to do online), This was discussed when I was a part of the UKDFD, but it was only the practicalities and lack of expertise that stopped us from at the time accepting pottery records...nothing to do with them not being metallic...
Pottery does play an important part of the hobby, we are by the very method of detecting, field walking eyes only at the same time and most of us collect pottery sherds, clay pipe stems etc...
Pre PAS days I have taken bags load of the stuff into my then County Museum for IDing...
There are a couple of books written for the hobby in respect of pottery.
Its quite bizarre but when I found the brass monkeys, the very next signal was a small, worn Roman bronze coin... not six inches away,but separated by 1800 years!