18th February 2008, 03:55 PM
On the 500 metres from Dovidodum, Water Newton idea, I have been thinking about the best way to go at it- should I charge for an access fee, go purely for a percentage of the finds or a combination of both. On the principle of bird in the hand I should go for an access fee. I have a slight problem that I don?t own any land but I will have to work on that.
There are insurances, public liabilities. I can get from this page.
http://fid.newbury.net/diary.htm
that detectorists are willing to pay about ?15 a day although I cant work out the numbers that attend ?acceptable detector density.
I am wondering what my unique selling point would be. I have the suspicion that being an archaeologist (ha ha) might be a hindrance. Have detector rallieists considered salting the land so as to give guaranteed results. A bag of fifty roman coins ebay ?30, the price of two punters. I could put three or four coins in a pot and get a hoard frenzy going. I could bring in a few exotics. Mongolian silk trade. Its noticeable that these rallies seem to be held on the weekend. Maybe I could do weekday ones. Possibly I should offer to do the metal detecting for them, carrying the spade or do the digging. Detector caddying. ?oh this is a tricky but fascinating little signal that you have there?.
Thinking about my tax expenses
Land rent fees
Administration
motor
Materials
entertainment
Then there is the politics, quangos and charities,
Some archies seem already to be trying to tie up this field and have lottery backing, working weekends cant be cheap. Do they organise insurance?
http://finds.org.uk/counties/lincolnshire/
I am starting to think that I might have to follow some archaeological standards and I will be back to square one, is there no escape. Back to trying to settle specs whilst in competition with the authorities.
There are insurances, public liabilities. I can get from this page.
http://fid.newbury.net/diary.htm
that detectorists are willing to pay about ?15 a day although I cant work out the numbers that attend ?acceptable detector density.
I am wondering what my unique selling point would be. I have the suspicion that being an archaeologist (ha ha) might be a hindrance. Have detector rallieists considered salting the land so as to give guaranteed results. A bag of fifty roman coins ebay ?30, the price of two punters. I could put three or four coins in a pot and get a hoard frenzy going. I could bring in a few exotics. Mongolian silk trade. Its noticeable that these rallies seem to be held on the weekend. Maybe I could do weekday ones. Possibly I should offer to do the metal detecting for them, carrying the spade or do the digging. Detector caddying. ?oh this is a tricky but fascinating little signal that you have there?.
Thinking about my tax expenses
Land rent fees
Administration
motor
Materials
entertainment
Then there is the politics, quangos and charities,
Some archies seem already to be trying to tie up this field and have lottery backing, working weekends cant be cheap. Do they organise insurance?
http://finds.org.uk/counties/lincolnshire/
I am starting to think that I might have to follow some archaeological standards and I will be back to square one, is there no escape. Back to trying to settle specs whilst in competition with the authorities.