Help BAJR and the PAS at Thornborough

[Paul Barford]

quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host

Are you equating a RAlly to a Deer Hunt? what are you talking about [?] perhaps Cambodian red deer ??

I dont think it matters in which country it takes place, do you? Yes, I think the analogy is a perfectly good one. One gets their kicks out of hunting for one kind of trophy with their mates, the other from another kind.

Steve, its a bit rich talking about co-operation when a large percent of your detecting fellows from UKDN actually rejected the Code of Practice. In any case, the CoP sets down a (minimum) agreed standard for responsible detecting by individuals, it actually makes no reference to rallies and where they would best be held. But the person offering the land, as I understand it is not a detectorist anyway, so not bound by the Code. And whether detectorists themselves feel it is responsible to target for searching for artefacts the area immediately adjacent to a scheduled site in an area of known archaeological sensitivity is of course a matter for their own informed consciences. Like Nigel, I presume those who freely agreed that the Avebury rally was a mistake will also be boycotting this one on the same principle (are they too "ostriches"?).

Paul Barford