Thornborough "debate"

[Paul Barford]

quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host

glad you aren't talking about detectorists [...] Now lets see if we can talk about the site without any sly digs at anyone.

Well David, if you look, you will see that the paragraph you quoted was my answer to the initial suggestion of "Is this a good argument for bringing in the metal detectorists to help out??
", I then went on to explain there and in subsequent posts why that seems to me to be a very superficial approach to the deeper problem which Nosterfield has here highlighted. No "sly dig", just trying to point out that for some of us at least the word "preservation" should mean that and not mean letting sites be bashed to bits and then picking up the pieces afterwards. It makes no difference whether you pick up the plough-dislodged finds with a metal detector or not, the whole approach to "mitigating the damage" seems fundamentally flawed to me.

Its not a case of "Paul [...] just wants to have a go at detectorists", I rather think that was a criticism which is addressed to an entirely different milieu.

Paul Barford