Anyone catch the Time Team Special "Codename Ainsbrook"?

Any comments?

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Dave

"Dave Emerson"  wrote in message
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> Anyone catch the Time Team Special "Codename Ainsbrook"?
>
> Any comments?
>
> --
> Dave

Chuffing Baldrick and the archies want lynching up!
What I can't quite get my haed around is why, after finding all that stuff
(7000 items!), and saying nothing, do those two detectorists suddenly decide
to contact the archies?
I personally would have said nothing and just carried on as before.
Mark my words, all that the PAS and CBA are really doing is gaining
sufficient evidence to get a total ban on detecting brought into power, and
we are playing straight into their hands.
We are doing ourselves no favours whatsoever  voluteering all the
information.
Already many of my friends have lost good sites on farms forever after
reporting finds to the archies.
The fact is that most detectorists in this country can see no further than
the end of their noses and are easily led into false senses of security.
One day they will wake up to reality when the news that detectors are banned
hits them!

"Theo"  wrote in message 
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>
> "Dave Emerson"  wrote in message
> news:fmqvi4$55k$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> Anyone catch the Time Team Special "Codename Ainsbrook"?
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> Chuffing Baldrick and the archies want lynching up!
> What I can't quite get my haed around is why, after finding all that stuff
> (7000 items!), and saying nothing, do those two detectorists suddenly 
> decide
> to contact the archies?
> I personally would have said nothing and just carried on as before.
> Mark my words, all that the PAS and CBA are really doing is gaining
> sufficient evidence to get a total ban on detecting brought into power, 
> and
> we are playing straight into their hands.
> We are doing ourselves no favours whatsoever  voluteering all the
> information.
> Already many of my friends have lost good sites on farms forever after
> reporting finds to the archies.
> The fact is that most detectorists in this country can see no further than
> the end of their noses and are easily led into false senses of security.
> One day they will wake up to reality when the news that detectors are 
> banned
> hits them!

Quite

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Dave

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:44:23 -0000, Dave Emerson
  
was popularly supposed to have said:

> Anyone catch the Time Team Special "Codename Ainsbrook"?
>
> Any comments?

Aye, nice of them to narrow down the site location for everyone, wasn't
it?

My best guess as to why they suddenly decided to bring in the archies
would be either a change of ownership of the land, or someone sussing
how much they were making off the stuff (and not letting on about) and
deciding to make them play it by the book.

The real bummer for them was the way the Portable Antiquities system is
set up, so that if someone finds something valuable they have a choice:
report it to the archaeologists and get maybe 40% of the actual value at
best, or stick it in a pocket and ebay it as "part of eccentric uncle
Herbert's things wot was lying in a box somewhere" or something.


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