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David Connolly is a Scottish archaeologist who gets warm huggy feelings when he thinks of artefact hunters. He read a le Monde article written by a French archaeologist calling for a European initiative on metal detecting and decided a poll was needed on his archaeological forum. Somehow though I do not think he is thinking in "Europeen", there seems to me a couple of options missing.
Poll: (Multiple answers allowed) In terms of the French call do you -
* Agree that all detecting should be banned - that will solve everything
* Agree that all detecting should be banned - but sites will still get nighthawked
* Disagree as it will only make nighthawking worse
* Disagree as it will ruin years of hard work and liason (sic)
* Don't know - but I feel that they are on the right lines
* Don't know - but I feel that they are not dealing with the real issues
For the record, I personally would not vote for any of those options, which seem intended to polarise the debate rather than furthering it.
"I personally would not vote for any of those options"
ReplyDeleteVery few archaeologists would, if the missing options weren't missing (or spun to make them unattractive!)