18th August 2010, 05:58 PM
Have you asked to look at DBA for the sites you work on?
The point isn't that no one would be interested or that people shouldn't be allowed to see it but surely you wouldn't want to actively encourage the opportunity for fresh sites to be looted? Surely it happens enough already? I know that there are some responsible metal-detectorists out there but picking new sites out for those that aren't seems pointless.
I would have thought there ware already several on-line resources from which you could research the localities in which you work without the need to identify every potential site in the country.
Whilst i'm worried that this might seem like we're trying to keep sites from the general public, like Dinosaur said, i don't think that most people actually would be all that interested. Perhaps i just have a cynical and suspicious nature but i think that its the 'wrong'uns' that would make most use of it!
The point isn't that no one would be interested or that people shouldn't be allowed to see it but surely you wouldn't want to actively encourage the opportunity for fresh sites to be looted? Surely it happens enough already? I know that there are some responsible metal-detectorists out there but picking new sites out for those that aren't seems pointless.
I would have thought there ware already several on-line resources from which you could research the localities in which you work without the need to identify every potential site in the country.
Whilst i'm worried that this might seem like we're trying to keep sites from the general public, like Dinosaur said, i don't think that most people actually would be all that interested. Perhaps i just have a cynical and suspicious nature but i think that its the 'wrong'uns' that would make most use of it!