18th August 2010, 11:51 AM
Example 1
There are some mud flats that keep coughing up silver coins with the date 1600. Its very difficult to search this area so I'm building an boat 1m long which can tow barges with different detecting equipment. The best soultion I have at the moment is to mount a custom built 1m coil attached to a Minelab Sovereign metal detector. This gives discrimination between ferrous and none ferrous metals. Trying to overlap magnetometer readings with PI readings would be too difficult at present due to the lack of accuracy with cheap RTK systems. My intension if I find it is to call in the press and show it in situ the reason, to highlight the fragmented and ill functioning Archaeological system in France. I doubt it very much if anyone on this forum would know what the legal situation would be with such a find. It would be very difficult to find some one in France that knows the law either. The DRAC are supposed to enforce the law what ever it is? but it is not their jurisdiction, confused?
Example 2
There is a site that could be a Veneti and Roman harbour. I intend to survey that site with the mini survey vessel and post the results on a Google Earth type site. The GPS readings will probably be out in the Atlantic but it will be up for interpritation and open to Archaeologist to investigate that have a track record of knowing what References and Context mean.
I don't have time for example 3. Its interesting to develop new technology and investigate the past.
There are some mud flats that keep coughing up silver coins with the date 1600. Its very difficult to search this area so I'm building an boat 1m long which can tow barges with different detecting equipment. The best soultion I have at the moment is to mount a custom built 1m coil attached to a Minelab Sovereign metal detector. This gives discrimination between ferrous and none ferrous metals. Trying to overlap magnetometer readings with PI readings would be too difficult at present due to the lack of accuracy with cheap RTK systems. My intension if I find it is to call in the press and show it in situ the reason, to highlight the fragmented and ill functioning Archaeological system in France. I doubt it very much if anyone on this forum would know what the legal situation would be with such a find. It would be very difficult to find some one in France that knows the law either. The DRAC are supposed to enforce the law what ever it is? but it is not their jurisdiction, confused?
Example 2
There is a site that could be a Veneti and Roman harbour. I intend to survey that site with the mini survey vessel and post the results on a Google Earth type site. The GPS readings will probably be out in the Atlantic but it will be up for interpritation and open to Archaeologist to investigate that have a track record of knowing what References and Context mean.
I don't have time for example 3. Its interesting to develop new technology and investigate the past.