14th January 2014, 07:24 PM
Have recently had to point out to a HER that a group of detectorist 'find spots' appeared (can't prove anything) to be a cynical attempt to disperse/camouflage an undeclared coin hoard in order to provide a 'verified' 'provenance' for the objects to (a) get around treasure law and (b) increase their individual value - having taken advice/made enquiries the HER in question have since suspended what turns out to be a considerable amount of other data from the same source... HER data, due to workload, is rarely checked to the level the curators would like (s'not their fault, I'm sure I'm the only person up to that point who'd had cause to plot that particular set of data, and then gone 'what the f***')
- the upshot is that HER data is only as good as the original source (who may have a different agenda) :face-thinks:
- the upshot is that HER data is only as good as the original source (who may have a different agenda) :face-thinks: