More than 1500 Roman sites added to the ARCHI database

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Anyone who thinks that artefact hunters do not target known sites needs to explain the existence of commercial  resources like ARCHI. ARCHI has just announced they have added another 1500 Roman sites to their searchable database of site locations. They cover themselves: "ensure you have permission of the landowner before fieldwalking on their land". "Fieldwakling" seems to be a common euphemism these days, why can artefact hunters not call a spade a spade and say what it is they are doing, artefact hunting, treasure hunting. Simple. And as we see above, a loty of them are not bothering to go out and find unknown sites, or ones of unknown "productivity". They pay ARCHI for information. This is from their latest mailshot:

Findspots of Roman Samian pottery is of particular significance because high-value pottery such as Samian suggests that you may be near to a high-stutus Roman site such as Roman Villa. Other indicators of high-status Roman sites include flue tiles, imbrex, tegula, hypocaust and obviously tesserae from the mosaics which onces adorned the wealthier Roman households. 

Just go out and search on the "high status" sites, bound to be lots of goodies there for the taking. The guy that's selling this information studied (even graduated in  I believe) archaeology, but now has decided to become a "partner" to those who have a somewhat different approach to archaeological information.