Paul Howard Admin 7th Nov 2020Asked (by the same lady that found one of the gold coins on Tuesday), where their leader would recommend going to get a valuation, Paul Howard replies "Theirs [sic] lots of options, coin dealers and auction houses around the U.K. that deal in coins and artefacts, you can google them". This was then followed by a whole series of treasure hunters that had already tried this and the problems they had getting the decent answers they wanted to get as much money out of the public purse as possible as quickly as possible. Mind you, NONE of them is "in it fer the munny", they're "only intrestid in the 'istry" ("passionately").
TIP OF THE DAY !!
If you find anything and want a real valuation get it valued before it goes to the FLO / Coroner, The reason for this is to value anything it needs to be seen by the person valuing the item and you won’t be able to do this once it’s been given to flo / coroner and then if it’s to be kept by the British Museum it’s too late , You 99.9 % of the time will have to except [sic] their valuation which is always under valued [sic], You will have a chance to show them your valuations but only if you did it before they had it and you can use your valuations as some proof what it’s worth Just a heads up for beginners
Paul Howard complains: "[...] Most of LGD best gold finds was reported over 3 years ago and heard nothing back",
Andy Green: "I know all about it mate",
Paul Howard: "Shaun Murton, Are you still waiting to hear back from FLO, Nearly 3 years now isn’t it[?]"
Andy Green: " That's out of order!"
Paul Howard: "Tell me about it, Should never take more than 2 Max",
Andy Green: "got anything going through yourself mate?"
Paul Howard : "No mate but loads of LGD finds from 3 years to 4 years ago"
Andy Green: "think I'll be dead before mine pays out"
Paul Howard: "We’ve lost one of our good farms because of this gold ring taking so long , and other farms for the same reason farmers after a few years think your [sic] ripping them off, it’s disgusting".
Paul Howard: "NOTICE REGARDING REPORTED TREASURE As your [sic] probably aware a lot of items reported as treasure can take up to and over 3 years at present that was before covid, It will help me if all those who have reported treasure found on LGD rallies and still awaiting contact from FLO's if you can contact me with updates on the progress of your finds as I am now chasing up all these finds with the authorities for updates [...]
Note the adjective "reported" Treasure. This is followed by a whole series of personal comments on the FLOs including their private lives, such as frequency of pregnancies, who's had an operation (but also which FLO "gives excellent service [sic]" to metal detectorists.
It seems these greedy half-literate halfwits that we see here have only a very rudimentary knowledge of the workings of the Treasure process. It seems nobody has taken the trouble to explain it to them in a way they understand. They here can be seen placing the whole blame for the delays and difficulties in getting their money quick on the FLOs. So for example that Ms X got pregnant is the "reason" why the Treasure ransom money did not come as fast as the finder wanted.
I really do think that archaeologists of the Helsinki Ilk that want to paint a rosy-tinted view of "public engagement with the heritage" should spend a couple of weeks solid on the UK tekkie social media, and just see for themselves the reality behind the picture of "responsible and responsive" unicorns they try to paint. Then let them try and test that model of "responsiveness" by writing something on those same media.
TAKE A GOOD LOOK at this behaviour, for these are precisely the sort of people the PAS wants to grab more and more millions of public quid to make into the "partners" of the British Museum, archaeological heritage professionals and to whom they want us all to entrust the exploitation of the archaeological record. Take a good look and decide what you think about that as a "policy".
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