22nd February 2008, 12:22 PM
Anyway fellow detectorists, the weekend is coming up, if you are looking for a county which is wide open for detection I would suggest Lincolnshire. I even suggest it is your duty to see what you can find on the sites of the lost scheduled monuments. There is a good chance that 60 % of these Scheduled Ancient Monuments have totally gone and that was in less than ten years as the scheduled monuments that are referred to in the Cosmic report were only scheduled a decade age.
I don?t worry about being prosecuted. EH have ample evidence that landowners have destroyed these monuments and there has not been a single prosecution. In fact they are protecting the identities/locations of the sites. I presume that they will extend the same courtesy to you and besides there is not a single inspector in the whole of the county and the landowners do not even know that they have scheduled monuments on their land...
I don?t worry about being prosecuted. EH have ample evidence that landowners have destroyed these monuments and there has not been a single prosecution. In fact they are protecting the identities/locations of the sites. I presume that they will extend the same courtesy to you and besides there is not a single inspector in the whole of the county and the landowners do not even know that they have scheduled monuments on their land...