A running record of Heritage Journal Articles on the subject of Metal Detecting and Antiquities Collecting (most recent first.)
2013
Mumbo steps out of the shadows!
Another plea to the Archaeology Forum: action needed.
Lawful and awful
Spare a thought for the Finds Liaison Officers
Farmer Brown: why Somerset landowners should beware of history locusts!
Nighthawk issued with metal detecting permit
Farmer Brown on calls for a Twinstead dénouement without scruples
Central Searchers demolish the crass barrier again
CBA confirms the Artefact Erosion Counter is a “reasonable basis”!
Farmer Brown on why finds agreements should never be signed
A picture to be viewed with contempt
How to reduce nighthawking: stop using the word!
More nighthawking on the Staffordshire Hoard field
Gold! Do Britain’s Secret Treasures reveal Britain’s secret rift?
Recent nighthawking on the Staffordshire Hoard field
Why you might not get to know your FLO
Heritage High Treason in Bedfordshire?
Has part of the Staffordshire Hoard been stolen – UPDATE
Has part of the Staffordshire Hoard been stolen?
2012
Heritage crime and punishment gets a bit more logical
Breaking news: now here’s a funny thing
Is the end of “responsible metal detecting” nigh?
Heritage Action threatened on two continents
Hurrah! Reporting to PAS made compulsory!
A Landowner’s guide to Finds Agreements – Part 2
This morning Wiltshire and Britain are a little better off
“Theft from landowners”: how come no-one tells us farmers about it?
Nighthawk caught. Great job, but…
NCMD to make reporting all finds to PAS compulsory
Codes to pose with
Regton’s acknowledge Heritage Action was quite right
“Britain’s secret treasures” creates Brum boom
Festival of British Oikism
Now government promotes egg collecting for profit!
Hypocrites and heroes in Furness
Shambolic and inappropriate stewardship of potential Treasure
How simple logic exposes Britain’s portable antiquities falsehoods
A second open letter to the Heritage Forum
Don’t build jubilee beacons on heritage sites!
Wow! America says we’ve been right all along!
Does it matter to Britain if the Yanks are crass? Yes and no.
The STOP Campaign that didn’t get strangled at birth!
A NEW “Stop taking our Past” Campaign – this time with universal support!
A Landowners’ Guide to “Finds Agreements”(Part 1)
The mystery of the missing outreach
2011
BBC no longer insulting amateur archaeologists
Mass theft at Twinstead Rally and what it means
A way for artefact hunters to become utterly adorable
A way for artefact hunters to become lovable
UK Detectornet forum provides an excuse for irresponsible behaviour – again!
Metal detecting: a sad 10th anniversary
Guilty M’Lord…….and Please, Dr Heyworth…….and Please Prince Charles
Metal detecting: honesty IS the best policy.
Charity Metal Detecting rallies: a racket exposed.
Largest metal detecting forum admits major cover-up
BBC finally gets it – amateur archaeologists don’t pocket archaeology
French organisation condemns British promotion of Treasure Hunting
BBC misleads viewers – but who misled the BBC?
Sir Barry Cunliffe on the definition of heritage theft
The Heritage Sector’s rouge element
Three cheers for amateur archaeologists!
Big Society yes. No society, no!
Farmer Eric Robinson on the people who found the Crosby Garrett helmet
Metal-detecting – fantaisies-fictions-et-faussetes
A bit more evidence the tanker is turning?
Deep metal detecting: an open letter to the Archaeology Forum
Running detecting rallies: it’s a living innit?
The Erosion Counter – still ticking relentlessly despite the denials
2010
Association of Ethical Purchasers of British Portable Antiquities
Opposing certain heritage threats now “unaffordable”
Culture spokesperson gets mobbed in House of Lords
Ethical Metal Detecting Association launched!
Minelab announces a major and disastrous technological advance!
Beyond the mumbo jumbo – Part 2
Crosby Garrett helmet sold, museum loses out, hero gets rich
Beyond the mumbo jumbo – Part 1
A sincere apology from Heritage Action to metal detectorists
World’s patrimony still exposed to pillage
The Crosby Garrett Helmet (Hiccus!)
Good news: English Heritage to focus upon Education, Education, Education
Whose interest will PAS protect? Landowners or detectorists?
Metal detecting: a simple test of heritage heroism
Metal detecting: a letter to Ireland
Metal detecting: an Irish solution to an English problem (part 4)
Metal Detecting: An Irish Solution to an English Problem (part 3)
Metal Detecting: An Irish Solution to an English Problem (part 2)
Metal Detecting: An Irish Solution to an English Problem (part 1)
Central Searchers goes underground!
Metal detecting: a quiet earthquake
Quote of the Week: Lord Renfrew
Thatcher’s children return to Avebury 5 years and 265 years on
Nighthawks should be called “Site burglars” say detectorists. Wrong again!
More Wiltshire local history being flogged off “for charity”
Staffordshire Hoard: Parting the Piggy Bank
Heritage Action vindicated at Portable Antiquities conference
Largest detecting forum confesses to undermining PAS
PAS to support metal detecting sales push
Metal detecting and helping Mr Trump: two additions to the school timetable?
Wiltshire metal detecting rally flouts archaeological guidelines
2009
Metal detecting at the end of the noughties: bad just got worse
Metal Detecting: a letter to English Heritage
Staffordshire hoard: reward shouldn’t be £3.2m but £32m claims detectorist!
The Staffordshire Hoard and Detecting? My Irish Eyes see an Illegal Activity
Legalised metal detecting? “No thanks, we’re French (and care for our history)”
National Council for Metal Detecting say reward delays are “unacceptable”!
Detectorist Michael Darke on what his share of YOUR £500,000 means to him
Detectorists dig up 11,000 artefacts in two week period. Every fortnight!
Metal detecting: half a million artefacts removed since UK exited Basra
Metal Detecting: more evidence it’s all for the love of history?
Metal Detecting: now the dealers are heroes too!
Metal Detecting: support from abroad – but look who it’s from!
NEWS: Metal detectorist jailed for six months
Metal detecting for money: Isobel, 7, shames the sham heroes.
Metal detecting is purely about love of history: UPDATE
Metal detecting is purely about love of history: computer says no!
Mr Browning, heritage hero – UPDATE
French metal detectorists seek archaeological asylum in Britain!
Metal detecting: annoyed by the rules? Make up your own!
Nighthawking: much ado about the wrong thing.
Heritage heroism: it depends who you talk to.
At last! Britain to stamp on nighthawks
2008
Mr John Browning, true heritage hero
Heritage Action nuzzled by a dead sheep
Is a code for responsible detecting too much to ask?
Bound for the USA http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=181
2007
Ten million artefacts taken http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=174
2006
A very good day for metal detecting http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=148
Metal detectorists aim for a second own goal! http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=129
2005
Thankyou for your patience http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=18
Encouraging responsible metal detecting http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=94
Shameful heritage plunder near Avebury http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=73
1 comment
Comments feed for this article
21/04/2011 at 11:32
Jim Halliday.
For many years I have searched the fields around Malton & Norton with metal detectors and donated my finds to the local museum.
It is now to close because of lack of funding and the Esate want the building to use as a commercial property.
I may as well left the finds where they were.
http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/ryedale/8984330.Malton_museum__in_closure_shock/