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Why is it, whenever a metal detectorist finds an important discovery, that only the archaeologist has the knowledge to excavate the objects.
many detectorist have a lot more knowledge than most archaeologist, seen and handled artefacts from the bronze age, many have taken part on excavations for years. I know many landowners that would not have an archaeologist team on their land at any price. The gap between archaeologist and metal detectorist is growing further apart day by day.
many important finds are made by detectorist and not archaeologist, one only has to watch time team to see how inexperience they are and lack of knowledge when it comes to identifying finds retrieved from the ground and these are the so called experts.
many important sites will be lost in the future due to the arrogance of archaeologist.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road