tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post1442627935925607203..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: BST: Beginners' Guide to Artefact HuntingPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-63042485133719401522012-08-08T03:52:38.451-07:002012-08-08T03:52:38.451-07:00"it would have told its Members to keep off a...<i>"it would have told its Members to keep off all archaeological sites, "</i><br /><br />Yes, that is among other things, what I was thinking about when I mentioned those "wider" aspects of best practice, pasture, earthwork sites, known archaeological sites and so on.Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-17583386498748377992012-08-08T02:59:26.557-07:002012-08-08T02:59:26.557-07:00"Well-intentioned" ... Well, I think &qu..."Well-intentioned" ... Well, I think "intentioned" would be more accurate.<br /><br />There was certainly an intention to produce some minor Best Practice sentiments and Best pro-detecting Platitudes that the programme neglected to supply but those seem to have been in order to paint a superficially better picture of artefact hunting not to render a service to the resource or landowners or the public.<br /><br />If it was meant to be truly beneficial to the resource it would have told its Members to keep off all archaeological sites, not to target them. Equally, if it was acknowledging the inarguable truth - that the farmer is the sole owner of what is in his fields and the most reliable and appropriate person to report finds - it would have said so straight out. Instead, Best Practice exploiter-style is laid out as merely showing him the finds and then take them home!<br /><br />I'd be fascinated to hear any detectorist or archaeologist explain how that is fair or heritage friendly or other than Bad Practice....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com