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Those awfully helpful folk at Heritage Action give the more intellectually challenged among their readers advice how to find a book they discuss ("Google “book”, you’ll find it") well, I decided I'd Google "detectorist book" and came across something pretty exciting: The World's Largest Suppliers of Metal Detecting Books" with a variety of how-to guides full of nerdy talk about ground effect, sweep, stem and pace lengths. There are also the "how to identify wot y'ev found" books. I could not see "the PAS book of Archaeology" there however. Or any other archaeology books without big hunks of gold on the cover. There are several about "finding trezure" and a lot about "getting permission" [to go "fieldwalking" - ahem ahem], but none about documenting and looking after what you find. There are no textbooks either of avocational academic coin collecting (conspicuously absent was the ACCG's recent "Textbook of Numismatic Scholarship on a Kitchen Table"). There was one about using your detector to make money. Oddly enough, nothing in any foreign language, they probably do not sell well among that particular audience.
So, is this really the largest in the world? What about Texas?
Those awfully helpful folk at Heritage Action give the more intellectually challenged among their readers advice how to find a book they discuss ("Google “book”, you’ll find it") well, I decided I'd Google "detectorist book" and came across something pretty exciting: The World's Largest Suppliers of Metal Detecting Books" with a variety of how-to guides full of nerdy talk about ground effect, sweep, stem and pace lengths. There are also the "how to identify wot y'ev found" books. I could not see "the PAS book of Archaeology" there however. Or any other archaeology books without big hunks of gold on the cover. There are several about "finding trezure" and a lot about "getting permission" [to go "fieldwalking" - ahem ahem], but none about documenting and looking after what you find. There are no textbooks either of avocational academic coin collecting (conspicuously absent was the ACCG's recent "Textbook of Numismatic Scholarship on a Kitchen Table"). There was one about using your detector to make money. Oddly enough, nothing in any foreign language, they probably do not sell well among that particular audience.
So, is this really the largest in the world? What about Texas?
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