No site is safe from Collection-Driven exploitation, that is looting for collectables, that's the message from a boast recently posted on a Metal Detecting Facebook Page a mouse click away concerning targeting of archaeological sites
A comment under it:Jonathan Addison shared a link (Bronze Age monument discovered in Forest of Dean, 31 October 2019 ) 31 October 2019
Location is "secret". Why? Does the archaeolgist imagine the lads haven't found it on Lidar or hundreds of others and dun them over long ago? They chase up marks a thousand [times] more subtle than that.
If they are the traces of archaeological sites in the forest, 'The Lads' (UK detectorists) would be doing so illegally, as the Forestry Commission have a blanket ban on artefact hunting on their property. Note, no mention is made in the article of the discovery of ANY metal objects on the site. Perhaps 'the (good old?) lads' had already paid this archaeological site a visit - perhaps in broad daylight, to plunder away any diagnostic artefacts that they fancied taking. The targeting of archaeological sites like that would be punishable by law in most other civilised countries. In Britain, artefact hunters feel entitled and empowered to boast about doing it on their Facebook pages.
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