Best Rally ever Portugal

[jferreira88yr]

 

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[surf]

Hello jferreira,

Welcome, and thanks for the video. It looks like there were many happy participants.

 

[maipenrai]

Lots of nice stuff, what kind of site was it?

 

[jferreira88yr]

Hi, was a medieval pilgrimage site (1500-1800), there was a chapel, which was destroyed by the earthquake 1755

 

[Mr.T]

Hi There-

Nice video, looked like fun. That's an interesting way to fold the entrenching shovel at 3.38. It never
occurred to me. You learn something new every day!

Tenha o divertimento e a boa sorte!

 

[CASPER-2]

metal detecting supposed to be illegal in Portugal - unless you are one of the lucky few with a permit
I had my machine confiscated - was threatened with a fine and arrest - and I was just hitting a beach
heard guys from UK were going over and hitting roman and other old sites and taking relics back home and selling them
so Portugal made a law that any detecting was illegal - the permits are real hard to get and even they are for beach areas only

 

[Tom_in_CA]

metal detecting supposed to be illegal in Portugal - unless you are one of the lucky few with a permit
I had my machine confiscated - was threatened with a fine and arrest - and I was just hitting a beach
heard guys from UK were going over and hitting roman and other old sites and taking relics back home and selling them
so Portugal made a law that any detecting was illegal - the permits are real hard to get and even they are for beach areas only

casper, perhaps you are referring to this law citation:

Law

Notice it refers to archaeological items. Well, gee, if you were on the beach, where old (ancient) coins showing up? If not, and if you were only angling for modern tourist losses (jewelry, etc...) then you should have been outside the scope of such verbage. You should not have gotten in trouble. Unless of course you were parading ancient stuff to them, or had found such things. In the future, you show them the verbage prohibits searching/finding for "archaeological" items. Heck, you were looking for your wife's wedding ring she just lost, right?

Also those laws are probably specific to public land (they're public laws afterall, detailing what you can do on public land, doh!). So private farmer's fields, with permission, would be outside the scope/reach of such things. Not unlike Britain, for example, where they too primarily hunt farmer's fields with permission.