Bad Apple

[Paul Barford]

Nigel Swift currently has some problems logging on to BAJR (Hosty have any settings been changed?) and asked me to post this on his behalf. I do so verbatim from what he sent:

quote:Originally posted by garybrun

This quote is from the Heritage action site
“You are entitled to seek whatever reassurance you wish that no harm will be done to archaeology, that the detectorist will report all finds to PAS and that he is motivated by love of history not financial gain”.

Ummm... is this not a true and reasonable statement? The signatories to the CoP seem to think so, so any disgruntlement had better be directed to them, not us.

quote:but Mr Swift and Mr Barford do not discuss the aspects of an FLO on Britarch that went against the “morals” of the PAS system do they Steve??? Nor does Nigel show the mistake of the FLO on his website yet is so quick to publish detecting matters which he says the public have a right to know.”

The text pre-dated your "revelation". And it was advice to landowners about what they should do if asked for permission to detect, no more and no less. Are you seriously saying we should have also advised landowners that there had been an alleged instance of a FLO acting unethically, something that PAS appear to have dealt with? Come off it. Quite how our failure to mention that can be interpreted a deliberate omission of relevant facts or evidence of pro-archaeologist bias I don't know. We're not even archaeologists! You're flogging a dead horse here. You should start supporting Heritage Action. It's attitude towards detecting seems a lot more liberal than EH's.
[Nigel Swift]