This week an article about metal detecting in an Essex newspaper ….

fell into a black hole  – and came out in the early 1950s !.

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A helpful County Council leaflet might well have been issued to every child in case the “wonderful education” resulted in many of them taking up egg collecting (rather than ornithology) when they were older …

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More Heritage Journal views on artefact collecting
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