A few months ago supporters of collection-driven exploitation of the archaeological record were ridiculing Sam Hardy's estimate of '27000 detectorists'. Perhaps they'd like to take a look at Facebook today. Mr Fudge's 'Metal Detecting' page, 26,102 members. That 27000 does not look at all unlikely does it? And how many metal detectorists did the PAS say they'd recorded finds from in 2019? Half that, even?
And what about the doddery old NCMD that has resigned from the forums and wants its members to use its Facebook page? 4,313 total likes, 5,536 total followers. So less than one third of them goes out with third party insurance? (FID has far fewer members than that, it has 154 members). That's not very "responsible is it?
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