18th January 2014, 08:29 PM
In the Pit Wrote:.... I fear cherry-picking random samples of existing excavation data and comparing apples & oranges in order to sling mud at detectorists isn't going to be a useful contribution to the debate.
fine, but;
i dont think it is just dectorists in line for a mud splattering......i anticipate evidence(at least circumstantial) that there unexpectedly low rates of small metalic finds from excavations, [especialy context '(100)/Topsoil']
and also;
this highlights a wider issue with lax approaches to 'ploughzone' archaeology in general....