Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Metal Detectorists and Rag-and-Bone Men

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What have artefact hunters with metal detectors, the portable Antiquities Scheme and Rag-and-bone men got in common? See Heritage Action's, 'Breaking news: here’s a funny thing!' (03/12/2012) to find out. 

"As from today it’s illegal to sell metal to scrapyards for cash. It’s all part of the fight against metal theft". 

But not metal taken from the British archaeological record it is not.