Time Team and Ainsbrook Hoard

[DAZ 1900]

quote:Originally posted by tom wilson



I'm sure Gary could give us some insights into how his fellow amateur archaeologists felt in general, but I don't think he trusts my good intentions.

Hi Tom

I rarely post on the forums nowadays but reading your quote above i wanted to give you my view being a Detectorist of 10 years myself

I watched the Program in it's entirety and had mixed feelings at the end. I felt the Program had the potential to put the Hobby back a good few years at the very begining with the "Nighthawk" statement and then came the ill thought out statments/comments made by the two Detectorists (the younger one especially!!)which had me hating them and questioning their every word with clenched fist Money was the only motive in Detecting for them and i was disgusted by this.It was at that point that i wanted to hear from the Landowner and what his thoughts were on this but we never did,which then had me thinking had the program been extensively edited and was we seeing everything.To summarize the Detectorists both acted and re-acted to situations throughout the whole Program that could be equated to how we are sometimes viewed within Archaeology.The Archaeologists did (in my view anyway!) investigate the site the right way as Topsoil Archaeology is only part of the picture.They would always have had to look for dateable structure within a sealed context in order to make sense of the site, but probably due to a lack of knowledge on the practices of Archaeology (at that time!!)they may not have known this and acted accordingly.

best wishes

Darren