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It may be that detectorists have more knowledge of artefacts than is credited to them but that is merely one part of the archaeologist's work. An example of another useful clue which might be waiting to be unearthed is a post hole; this is a common archaelogical find but would a detectorist even notice one of these and avoid disturbing it? There is a lot more to archaeology than "handling artefacts" but I fear that is the only area of interest to detectorists.
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