Artefact Hunting, Archaeology without that Awful "Book Larning"

On a metal detecting forumnear you, though from half-way round the world, "Goldwar" from Central coast of New South Wales (a detectorist obviously) seems not to perceive any difference between artefact hoiking and collecting and archaeology(17th August 2013, 08:53 PM):

at least with metal detecting you dont have to go through all that garbage school work :D to be come a archaeologist.

but then in Aussie they have no Portable Antiquities Scheme to outreach and keep the public informed about such things.