Note the attitude of entitlement there. As though commenting on the public activities of a hobby group was in some way inexcusably wrong and justification from the oikish reaction.
If you live in the UK, people like this are the ones that want YOUR money to go towards them pretending to be "partners" in looking after the UK heritage. Is this really the sort of people heritage professionals in the UK should be taking public money to attempt working with?
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"people like this are the ones that want YOUR money to go towards them pretending to be "partners" in looking after the UK heritage. Is this really the sort of people heritage professionals in the UK should be taking public money to attempt working with?"
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Well, as you know, English Heritage has just had a one-off £80 million grant to look after the 420 properties in the National Collection including Stonehenge and Dover Castle in perpetuity yet PAS has already had nearly 25% of that sum and the Treasure Act has shelled out another 25% perhaps.
Admittedly almost no detectorists are like this ludicrous thug stuck in his own adolescence but still most of them don't give anything back in terms of mitigation or knowledge or conservation so it's pretty clear PAS and the current unregulated antiquities regime are a lot less value for money than our other hard-pressed Government agencies.
(I hear a discreet but heartfelt YAY! from Waterhouse Square!)
I think you are being too kind in your assessment of those C2s and Ds to whom British "policies" (I use the term loosely) entrust the handling of the fragile archaeological heritage.
Cheltenaham metal detectorist and businessman Steve Taylor continues to refuse to follow any normal standards of decorum when posting comments to this blog. For that reason I am not publishing his further filthy harassment in full. I do however want to draw attention to one piece of what he said (apart from the attack on the local FLO which I may be passing on):
"I don't work with anyone, the P.A.S had their chance and blew it many years ago. "
Now that is rich, the PAS "had a chance to work with me". So what "work" inviolving the archaeological record is Mr Taylor carrying on without the PAS involvement now they've somehow "blown their chance"?
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