15th January 2008, 09:28 AM
Did I miss a meeting or was I watching a different channel. Were the detectorists payed proffesionals who had spent many years in the field mastering the skills of site characterisation and site phasing using geophysics and topographical survey with a wealth of university qualifications behind them or where they a couple of treasure hunters who had flogged off many a find in the past and would (by his own admission) do so in the future. No wonder EH didnt dig in areas they wanted because they would have been back after the excavation and cleaned house.
If detectorists are to be used they should be qualified archaeologists or at the very least trusted members of a detectorist club not cheeky JacK Sparrow and his dodgy mate.
If it had been my site I wouldnt have let them anywhere near it and as for EH why havnt they made moves over the last few years to Schedule the area? I would have prosecuted the pair of them. We shouldnt pander to these people they are robbing our heritage and I thought the show set a bad example and showed archaeology to be amateur, cheap and undesisive.
Close enough for a country job!
If detectorists are to be used they should be qualified archaeologists or at the very least trusted members of a detectorist club not cheeky JacK Sparrow and his dodgy mate.
If it had been my site I wouldnt have let them anywhere near it and as for EH why havnt they made moves over the last few years to Schedule the area? I would have prosecuted the pair of them. We shouldnt pander to these people they are robbing our heritage and I thought the show set a bad example and showed archaeology to be amateur, cheap and undesisive.
Close enough for a country job!