"once again the hobbyist bails out the government"

Generous to a fault, those heritage-takers, on a British metal detecting forum near you:

"once again the hobbyist bails out the government"

Everybody should be registering with these forums to see what artefact hunters themselves say about their activities. It is quite an eye-opener, and very revealing of their utterly facadist attitudes. In fact, how can one be a supporter of artefact collectors without doing this? I suspect that many jobsworth UK archaeologists do precisely that, which is simply superficial and negligent. Don't be like them, take a look at what artefact hunters are actually saying as they dismember the archaeological record and pocket archaeological evidence.