The Heritage Journal has launched a metal detecting club

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The Heritage Journal has launched a metal detecting clubThe Heritage Journal has launched a metal detecting cluband what is more, it is free to join, not like the near ubiquitous commercial rally organizers.

It’s the first detecting club dedicated to promoting the public’s interest alone. It’s purely for detectorists who believe anything they find belongs to the landowner (or if special, to the country) not them, and who gain their pleasure from gaining the historic knowledge alone. What’s more, they believe the knowledge surrounding artefacts is everyone’s so shouldn’t be withheld or destroyed.

They have set out some ideas and announce that "in the next few weeks we’ll suggest some of the things members should do if they want to align with our notional club and to act acceptably, in the public’s interest" and I think this is a time that heritage professionals (PAS staff and FLOs in particular) should be engaging in the discussion that, with perhaps 27000 detectorists all "passionately unterested in preserving history" in England and Wales, will no doubt ensue. No doubt.