PAS now says it doesn’t matter if you don’t report your metal detecting finds!

The 6 academics organised by PAS to discredit Dr Sam Hardy’s paper have said: “unreported finds are not damage, but at worst a zero-gain“! Really?! If something should be reported but isn’t, is that no loss to science?

It makes a mockery of 20 years of pleading: “All archaeological discoveries have the potential to add to our knowledge” (Council for British Archaeology) and “If recorded, these finds have the potential to tell us much about the past” (PAS) and hands detectorists a cast iron excuse not to report what they find.

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We trust PAS will speedily withdraw this untruthful, foolish and damaging statement which it wasn’t founded to say and isn’t funded to promote.

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More Heritage Journal views on artefact collecting
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