Sunday 19 February 2017

Exploitive artefact hunters Mislead Landowners


In England, artefact hunting heritage pocketers consider themselves 'generous' if they return to a landowner what they've taken from them... 

 Let us take a look at a random page of the 'identification and valuation' page of The Searcher, to get an idea of the average value placed by the market on run-of-the-mill artefacts: £50, £180-200, £80, £40-60, £30, £120, £120-150, £220, 300+, £15-18, £60, £120-150, £80-90, £40, £120, £20, £30, £80.... I think we get the idea. Metal detectorists claim they are 'not interested in the money', but every single one of them is aware that the artefacts they rmove from a landowner's property are not without (monetary) value, and cumulatively the resale value of even a small collection of historical metal artefacts can be quite substantial. How much of the money raised by the sale of such a collection (for exaple by heirs) ever gets back to the landowner? How many artefact hunters create the sort of documentation that would allow this?

No. it is not the artefact hunter who is generous, these people are exploiting the lack of awareness of the landowners and it should be the job of the PAS to inform the landowner of this as a public service to STOP the rip-off merchant collectors  profiting from keeping landowners in the dark.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"exploiting the lack of awareness of the landowners"

That's called THIEVING down my road.

What are you Paul, an apologist for detectorists?

Paul Barford said...

Well, as we all know, I do now own a bright yellow metal detector http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/03/paul-barford-buys-metal-detector.html but cannot seem to find any buddies wiv permissins to let me go out wiv them. So, I've not used it, but I just LOVE metal detectorists, really. Love 'em.

 
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