12th May 2006, 09:06 PM
Working together is of course "good for all". The point I made is that as a result of a number of factors, members of the public have been taking things they've found to museums like this for many many years... i.e., many members of the public have realised this for themselves. My question was, who this film was aimed at.
I was not asking whether the patera was recorded, I assume if it was taken to the museum and is being conserved it would be, but I was puzzled why in the circumstances, the film presented here bore the UKDFD logo and slogan.
The main message (apart from the long NT-policy-on-detecting bit, the meaning of which in the context of the main story was entirely unclear to me) seemed to be that if detectorists show what they have taken out of a medium sized hole (is that what was hidden under the board?) to the archaeologists they can dig a slightly bigger one. But the viewer is told or shown nothing much about what that actually gives except a nice rectangular hole in the ground where we already know there was a site.
Paul Barford
I was not asking whether the patera was recorded, I assume if it was taken to the museum and is being conserved it would be, but I was puzzled why in the circumstances, the film presented here bore the UKDFD logo and slogan.
The main message (apart from the long NT-policy-on-detecting bit, the meaning of which in the context of the main story was entirely unclear to me) seemed to be that if detectorists show what they have taken out of a medium sized hole (is that what was hidden under the board?) to the archaeologists they can dig a slightly bigger one. But the viewer is told or shown nothing much about what that actually gives except a nice rectangular hole in the ground where we already know there was a site.
Paul Barford