For many years PAS has studiously ignored all our ideas for reducing knowledge loss and protecting the buried archaeological resource. Which is strange, as those two aims are their whole raison d’etre. However, a Finds Liaison Officer has just taken notice and suggests we send a list of our suggestions to see what might be done. It’s a great offer.
We thought we’d start by sending just one suggestion which goes to the heart of the matter. It’s that we think PAS should make it clear on their website that not reporting recordable metal detected archaeological finds is not merely irresponsible but immoral. Why? Because in a country where, in the 20 years PAS has existed, a small hobby has withheld 13 million bundles of knowledge from the public and science, such a statement is 20 years overdue.
PLUS, we think the gruesome and capacious underbelly of the hobby, see below, ought to be shown to the public and landowners, not ignored by officialdom. Let PAS do a bit more exposing and a bit less praising.
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The Heritage Journal 
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22/07/2017 at 09:34
Edwin Deady
Found by him but are they his finds? What about “stealing by finding”.
22/07/2017 at 10:08
heritageaction
The finds are his under Britain’s laws, unfortunately, but by all that’s decent the knowledge is “ours” and that’s the thing so many of them can’t get through their heads.