A Map that Seems to Show the PAS Fluff is Just That

I am sure one of the supporters of PAS and collection-driven exploiters of the archaeological record can explain this to us. Here is a map of a rather large European island. In one part, artefact hunting with metal detectors is banned. In the other, in the UK, artefact hunting with metal detectors is not banned. Who can show use where the recovery of information about otherwise unknown sites by metal detectorists is reflected on this map?  Ixelles Six/Helsinki Gang here is an actual case study you can use to test your ideas about liberalistion of legislation on artefact hunting... Go on.

IRELAND OF ARCHAEOLOGY. It's a map of Ireland composed almost solely of 167,293 dots, representing all of the Ireland's recorded archaeological sites. The IWTN asked archaeologist Richard Clutterbuck to draw the map.