Heritage Action: Staffordshire Hoard: less talk, more walk?

HA Staffordshire Hoard: less talk, more walk? 06/10/2019

Next month the Society of Antiquities will hold a conference about the Staffordshire Hoard. For us, the most significant part will be the last session, which asks “where should Hoard studies go from here?” It’s no secret where we have long thought where hoard studies should go next [...] As is well known, we’re confident the machines used in the official searches were nowhere near the capability of the ones available to every night -time scruff who fancies a bit of searching.  

They also cite an eye-witness account of 'Warren' the detectorist on the site seven years ago during the final official search in December 2012:

I Noticed their detectors were of many different makes and abilities. There is no way that land is sterile yet

They feature a photo of the site covered by footprints. One feels if this were Historic England inspectors checking the state of the scheduled site, they'd have entered the field by the gate, not hopping over the fence. Anyway, anyone taking bets when that site was scheduled?

In point of fact, it is not just the hoard findspot that needs examining, but its entire landscape context, such as where the Roman road crosses the stream just to the NE of the site.
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