Heritage Action wrote a text about the Polish artefact hunters' rally
on Crown Estate land at Offley, Herts and published it in their online
journal. The PAS Hertfordshire Finds Liaison Officer saw this text and
added a comment saying he could put the preservationists' minds to rest because.... the finds were being recorded. He seems oblivious to the
real point which was the propriety of holding a commercial artefact
hunting rally at all when it results in the concentrated, but selective,
erosion of the archaeological record.
So here is a question to the PAS generally, can the holding of erosive commercial artefact hunting rallies really be justified through the voluntary and selective recording of the "finds"?
So here is a question to the PAS generally, can the holding of erosive commercial artefact hunting rallies really be justified through the voluntary and selective recording of the "finds"?
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