tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post2840922074533939894..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Looting: The PAS and the Elephant in the Room Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-38189824345011503012021-07-30T06:28:30.473-07:002021-07-30T06:28:30.473-07:00"Who knows, perhaps one of your regular detec..."Who knows, perhaps one of your regular detecting contributors would discuss their own finds ratio's".<br /><br />I've seen scores, probably hundreds do exactly that elsewhere and very few say they don't report everything to PAS!Brian Mattickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07207831120680627468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-48366288960701314142021-07-27T10:47:41.184-07:002021-07-27T10:47:41.184-07:00I am sure you are right (except that any of them a...I am sure you are right (except that any of them are at all interested in an honest partnership). I'd stress the idea all along has been that the HA erosion counter would deliberately choose to err on the side of caution - the Hardy 27000 tekkies figure is also the LOW estimate. And it talks of PAS-recordable items and not just any old scrap of old metal (even though the latter too are archaeological finds). But you see there are unreflexive twerps in the UK archaeological world who insist we are wrong, even then. <br /><br />So it's not just the artefact hunters that are lacking the requisite intellectual honesty to discuss this issue properly.<br />Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-42477729871845913422021-07-27T07:12:34.380-07:002021-07-27T07:12:34.380-07:00From my observations, the idea that there are ten ...From my observations, the idea that there are ten objects being removed for one PAS record is laughable. <br />Selection is made, in the field (what's worth taking home and cleaning), at home (should i take it to the FLO) and then by the FLO (is it worth my time to record).<br />I've seen landowner collections with hundreds of items in biscuit tins from land with no PAS records and detectorists collections with no recorded items.<br /><br />In my humble, anecdotal opinion from a quaint corner of NW, i'd suggest the ratio of unrecordeed to recorded metal items is closer to 100 to 1 and the Erosion counter out by a factor of ten.<br /><br />Who knows, perhaps one of your regular detecting contributors would discuss their own finds ratio's. After all, they are so interested in openess and working in poartnership with archaeologists.Hougenaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13572432580825010946noreply@blogger.com