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Thanx for posting the link. Very interesting. And to think that some Americans look-with-envy on the British system, thinking this supposed system of "declaring" key finds, etc.... is a "hunt-anywhere" type permit system, where "everyone loves metal detectorists". Far from it! They still have "scheduled sites" where .... no .... just like here in the USA, you can NOT hunt on their public land.
Here in the USA, if you find something in a farmer's field here, you keep it with that farmer. NO intrusion and telling archies to come interfere, etc.... So for the life of me, I don't understand why some people in the USA, at the slightest hint of being told they can't go to a national park (or some state parks) think "
Wouldn't a system like the British have be great to have here?" 
And there are no shortage of British archies that ....... although they have govt. tasks of sorting through something you found, yet STILL don't necessarily like metal detectorists (just like archie's here tend not to, as well). But for some reason, because of this govt. system, there's come to be this mis-information that somehow, therefore, British archies like md'rs. This is not necessarily always the case there, as you can see from this.
I had to chuckle at this point in the video: 6:29 See how those poor souls go about doing their archie dig? Have you EVER seen something so slow and boring? Combing the soil like that would take a crew a YEAR just to cover what a single guy with a detector can do, in the top 12" of a square acre can do, in a single afternoon. Yeah yeah, I know, they do it with tedious studies of "context" and so forth. Oh well, I can tell you "it was about X inches deep, and I found it right over there". Seems to me that's accurate enough for my mantle place display! ha
....bunch of robbing hypocrites.
