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A metal detectorist near you tells us how a PAS-partner sees things. According to him, preservationists are miffed not because the archaeological record is being eroded, but because:
It seems that PAS is not archaeology. Roger Bland and his merry band of FLOs do not read metal detecting blogs, so somebody will have to tell him just how far their fifteen million quid outreach has reached. It's not even got as far as Bournemouth.