26th April 2010, 09:37 AM
I am not impressed. There is probably some dodgy 1939 fascist law that says that any archaeological find is immediately the property of the Italian state which makes landowners not only want to block such sites up but also chuck in a few sticks of dynamite as well. We have similar situation in this country. If I was a landowner I wouldn’t want any significant archaeological site on my land. I would get a big plough and plough it all up