Artefact Hunters are from Mars

The British archaeological organisation Rescue seem very diffident about discussing their own policies.... at their Annual General meeting was supposed to be discussion about setting up a 'research' (sic) and educational "Institute of Detecting" [artefact hunting] and Keith Westcott, their tame pet artefact hunter who's behind the idea got carried away on their facebook page and engaged in a very long discussion/argument on the idea with Heritage Action and Evelyne Godfrey of Uffington Heritage Watch. Needless to say that the discussion has been deleted because it went beyond the "ooo, nice cuddly-wuddly idea" and got a bit substantive. And then the name-calling started. Artefact hunting is not archaeology, and there is a vast chasm between artefact hunters and archaeologists.