Metal Detecting in Japan

[Tom_in_CA]

Fine words Tom so why in various countries where metal detecting now has a total ban detecting was allowed on the beaches with a few exceptions, things like historic sites...could be an ancient port now gone, or a site of scientific interest or is just a nesting ground or place where turtles bury their eggs. The "don't worry about that crew" came in and in the end the authorities decided to give up and just impose a total ban.

O well I'm off for a week to sit on a sunny beach where detecting is allowed (with permit).

Brian, I'm not understanding your point. Are you saying that: If someone, on a beach where detecting has just historically gone on and no one cares, yet given enough sleuthing, verbage like that can be found, ... and "afterall, they might find an old coin", ... that thus, they will lead to a total ban?

If so, then this line of reasoning on your part has just effectively meant that thousands of beach hunters in CA (just to use CA as an example) should therefore stop hunting our beaches, because afterall, given enough morphings, we can find things we run afoul of. I really don't think you're going to prevail on any beach hunter here to see things that way. They're going to look at you with wide dazed eyes, and say "but detecting is allowed here". Whereupon you or I merely open up the books, show them cultural heritage things or lost & found laws, and say "presto, now go home and be shamed for having detected". It just doesn't work that way. Do you tell them to go "seek permits" as a pre-emptive measure for something in which isn't an issue? So I'm not sure what you meant when you alluded to "permits", if we're talking places where .... essentially .... these things (cultural heritage, lost & found laws, etc...) have not been applied to casual beach hunting.

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