Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Brexit: Keeping British Metal Detectorists on their Island of Confusion

Sunday, 13 October 2019

Brexit: Keeping British Metal Detectorists on their Island of Confusion

Ending Freedom of Movement creates a prison not a fortress. from here

6 comments:

Tstanson said...: Now we need to make their leader Mr Johnson write in to the new Brexit deal that all the idiots/the uneducated/ theoafs of the world of Metal Detecting have their contact with the outside world cut off. I refer specifically to a video from 'YouTube Superstar' iDetect uploaded on Sunday 20 October 2019 which very clearly shows him pilfering antiquities from Sparsholt Roman Villa. A site that stays dear in my memory as it was one of my very first excavations whilst studying Archeaology in the early 1970's. Behaviour of this 'idiots' type hurts me to my soul. Where is the education? Where is the drive to learn about the area, where is the ambition to share their findings? All disregarded to increase their following. What is English Heritage doing to properly protect these sites and stop such oafs rampaging through British history?; 21 October 2019 at 07:04
Paul Barford said...: You mean THIS video ("Oi've got a bucket full of Roman coins, they don't do anyfink for me") https://youtu.be/5dQRlRFDWbk?

How do you work out that this is Sparsholt?; 22 October 2019 at 01:35
Tstanson said...: Yes that's the video. I know this for two reasons. Firstly I spent a lot of time on that excavation and as it was one of my first it is in my memory as if it happened yesterday. Secondly another archaeologist I keep in touch with from that area walks their dog on the country park where the villa is sited. She sent me the link immediately, she is 100% sure it is that location. She is going there tomorrow to take images which match the exact location they filmed from to pass to Winchester City Museum who are the custodians of the artefacts discovered. These idiots need to be stopped before further damage to the record is caused.; 22 October 2019 at 02:06
Paul Barford said...: Is the site scheduled? He said he had the gamekeeper's permission - no mention there of the landowner that I heard.; 22 October 2019 at 02:23
Paul Barford said...: According to this, the site is SCHEDULED https://www.forestryengland.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Hampshire%20Downs%20Forest%20Plan%20West%20Wood.pdf (p. 2); 22 October 2019 at 02:28
Tstanson said...: Very much scheduled! https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001908; 22 October 2019 at 02:37