28th September 2010, 11:38 AM
my carefully thought out comment was just deleted by the computer....typical!
so briefly, unit, your comments about a metal detecting gallery at tullie house, bit harsh i think, museums are full of stuff not retrieved by commercial archaeologists? but the museums still show them, why? because they bring the public in.. and as an institution needing to make profit i think they are doing the right thing. Esp now with funding cuts etc... and besides, there will always be people out there using metal detectors... educating them is a good thing, at least we then stand a chance of seeing what they have found and sometimes we find amazing sites, Cumwhitton burials for example... couple more years of ploughing and they would have been scattered across the field, as it was, following the report to the PAS a full exc was done,
and if the people of carlisle want to donate their money so the ''roman'' helmet can come to tullie house then fine let them... whether it is real or not it wont have encouraged anymore people to go out detecting than any other find has done, so we either put up with it, and help educate people or hope the governement bans them (which lets face it, is never gonna happen).
And anyway, I reckon that a metal detectorist taking somethng out of context is no worse than some of the shocking evaluations I've seen over the years....
so briefly, unit, your comments about a metal detecting gallery at tullie house, bit harsh i think, museums are full of stuff not retrieved by commercial archaeologists? but the museums still show them, why? because they bring the public in.. and as an institution needing to make profit i think they are doing the right thing. Esp now with funding cuts etc... and besides, there will always be people out there using metal detectors... educating them is a good thing, at least we then stand a chance of seeing what they have found and sometimes we find amazing sites, Cumwhitton burials for example... couple more years of ploughing and they would have been scattered across the field, as it was, following the report to the PAS a full exc was done,
and if the people of carlisle want to donate their money so the ''roman'' helmet can come to tullie house then fine let them... whether it is real or not it wont have encouraged anymore people to go out detecting than any other find has done, so we either put up with it, and help educate people or hope the governement bans them (which lets face it, is never gonna happen).
And anyway, I reckon that a metal detectorist taking somethng out of context is no worse than some of the shocking evaluations I've seen over the years....