Farmer Brown, still embarrassing Britain with 14 words after all these years!
. Back in 2014, Farmer Brown asked the unanswerable: Why, if metal detecting good practice is so desirable, hasn’t it been made compulsory? The answer is simple but remains unanswered. Except by him: “The truth of Bonkers Britain is that a few thousand people (and absolutely no-one else) are adamant that they must retain their […]
Remember when Farmer Brown held a metal detecting rally? How did it go?
It was back in 2014 and it went to the heart of what’s indefensible about British detecting rallies and how landowners are let down by the authorities. No one turned up and PAS has kept schtum about its own deplorable and damaging silence on the matter. Dear Colleagues, Surrey County Council say their metal detecting […]
Farmer Brown: a question unanswered since 2014. Why??
In 2014 I wrote … Dear Fellow Landowners, This week I’ve been puzzling about this: why, if “metal detecting good practice” is so desirable, hasn’t it been made compulsory? A detectorist on a forum has just provided a clue. He complained that a PAS document reproduces the official Code of Practice but it “omits the […]
Triphena, Farmer Brown’s mum, a REAL heritage hero!
We’re sorry to report that Triphena, Farmer Brown’s mum, has done her back while helping a sow to farrow, so we thought we’d cheer her up by re-running her seminal advice to landowners from back in 2013. No-one could publicly deny she is a true heritage hero. Yet they will. ______________________________________________________ . Farmer Brown’s mum […]
Farmer Brown: detectorist claims farmers are uncultured fools.
Dear Fellow Landowners, Here’s the latest from a detecting forum: “Some want to see everything & take their pick of the goodies, others just aren’t interested and are happy for you to take everything.” Seriously? Are we farmers so uncultured that we don’t care or so rich we don’t mind giving a scruff the complete […]
Farmer Brown and how Sainsbury’s have something to teach landowners
Dear Fellow Landowners, If you really MUST trust someone to metal detect your land (despite the fact Sainsbury’s don’t trust a single person not to pocket stuff) please see this recent enquiry on a detecting forum: “I informed the land owner of my find and he has asked to see it which of course isn’t […]
Farmer Brown: landowners, how about protecting Britain’s history from Britain’s negligence?
Dear Fellow Landowners, “I will report the discovery of items of significant historical value in accordance with the latest legislation”. So says a detectorist’s information leaflet I’ve just seen. Sounds OK but it certainly isn’t. In negligent Britain, a legal obligation to report finds only applies to Treasure items, not the other 99.8% of recordable […]
Farmer Brown: joy over one sinner that repenteth (revisited!)
Dear Fellow Landowners, I see a detectorist has just said, when pressed, they would have “no objection” to a farmer getting an independent appraisal of whatever a detectorist finds on his land. How big of them! Shame they and the rest don’t insist on that without being asked! It reminds me of what I wrote […]
Farmer Brown: the visible difference between “metal detecting charity rallies” and cons.
Dear Fellower Landowners, Soon charity rallies will be starting again, so please remember: ALL finds are yours (or occasionally the country’s) so you alone should say who gets what and if anything can be taken away. So it follows that if you’re offered a finds agreement that says less than that, you’d be foolish to […]
Farmer Brown to landowners: beware of inadvertent or deliberate untruths.
Dear Fellow Landowners, On a detecting forum this week, there were two succinct confessions by someone who might not even realise the fact: “I always try to give them a printout from the NCMD”. But that NCMD code is a pound-shop version of responsibility, not the official one and merely give the impression it’s the […]
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