Staffordshire Hoard - the alternative view

Writing about the media hoo-haa about the "Staffordshire hoard" from the point of view of Ireland where unlicensed metal detecting has been illegal here since 1987, Gordon Kingston points out:

One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day, nor does one shining, glorious hoard make up for all the information lost, or heritage sold.

He dismisses the Noble Detectorist model being propagated by the PAS and its apologists, and I think he is right in doing so. Not everybody has their minds clouded by the romanticised image of artefact hunting put out by the British media.