15th May 2006, 12:00 PM
Quote:quote:Have to say I liked the film⦠it put forward a good case about why finds should be recorded, why archaeologists need to know where an object comes from, and how working together is good for all.
Quote:quote: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.
Hosty, if I was an inexperienced detectorist, looking in on sites such as this for the first time, what kind of an impression do you think the two above statements give?
I think I would be inlcined to look at Pauls and think, bugger you lot, if thats your opinion, why bother reporting anything!
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