15th January 2008, 11:18 PM
Tom,
rest assured, you're efforts at mediation were successful, at least for me, my posts earlier in this debate were based on my opposition to one-sided comments which ignored reality in favour of a biased partisan opinion. My position is that detectorists are here and will continue to be here, we have a choice; engage with them or not. In other European countries anti-detectorist legislation is much more stringent than in the UK, this has not stopped the indiscriminate looting of the national heritage of those countries. If draconian laws aren't the answer then mediation and rapprochement must be, in short we must work with detectorists because we have no other reasonable course of action to take. This, however, does not mean bending over backwards and allowing every and any unsupported statement by detectorists against the archaeological community to go unchallenged.
If you ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow, you need buttermilk and cheese and an equilateral chainsaw. Half Man Half Biscuit
rest assured, you're efforts at mediation were successful, at least for me, my posts earlier in this debate were based on my opposition to one-sided comments which ignored reality in favour of a biased partisan opinion. My position is that detectorists are here and will continue to be here, we have a choice; engage with them or not. In other European countries anti-detectorist legislation is much more stringent than in the UK, this has not stopped the indiscriminate looting of the national heritage of those countries. If draconian laws aren't the answer then mediation and rapprochement must be, in short we must work with detectorists because we have no other reasonable course of action to take. This, however, does not mean bending over backwards and allowing every and any unsupported statement by detectorists against the archaeological community to go unchallenged.
If you ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow, you need buttermilk and cheese and an equilateral chainsaw. Half Man Half Biscuit