Heritage Action ask: 'Does a detecting club owe landowners £32,500?' It looks to me as if it might do, but do its members see it that way? And if they do not, why should they be allowed to get away with it? Maybe the Portable Antiquities Sche... oh, never mind, waste of time expecting them to say anything to their 'partners'.
"but do its members see it that way?"
ReplyDeleteTheir opinion is supremely irrelevant. This is still a civilised country in which the law acts as a constraint upon behaviour.