Readers might remember the "responsible British detectorist" who could not make up his mind whether his name was "Don" or "Ton" and who falsely asserted an "endemic ransack of huge numbers of Roman coins that are ending up on Ebay" from Poland. He has just sent a comment to the thread on detectorist Graham Chetwynd's promise to come over here as an ambassador of the hobby and have a proper discussion of the issues. I am not publishing the comment. Apart from its other insulting remarks addressed to my person, it contained a joke on the subject of Syrian chemical weapons which I think many besides myself would find highly offensive. I have not posted it, but you will have to take my word for it that there are people in UK metal detecting who find such things as nerve gas attacks on unarmed brown-skinned civilians intensely amusing. You do not have to look very far on their forums for all manner of misogynous, sexist, xenophobic and racist comments and 'jokes'.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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