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nigelswift
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Re: Encouraging responsible metal detecting
Aug 03, 2005, 07:23
"If you could show me hard evidence that those figures are correct, and not based on assumption, I will be standing alongside you, fighting the good fight on this."

Well it's hard to provide evidence for that which is, by the nature of how it's defined, concealed!

Can't you fight the good fight on the basis that there's probably "a lot"?

If you really need stats, such as they are, but with unavoidable assumptions built in, you could take two sets of figures from PAS, last year -

Average number of finds by "reporters" - 17.
Multiply by number of non-reporters (choose your figure).
Caveat on this calc: a posting on ukdetectornet: "I'd have thought the average detectorist found 17 in a week, not a year".

Or, you could go "local". PAS figures: last year in Norfolk, 162 detectorists reported nearly 19,000 finds. Project that onto your number of non-reporters and you could cover a number of football pitches with finds that have gone walkies.

IMO opinion, the first calc you do will be too low and the second will be vastly too high (distorted by someone bringing in their whole collection?)

But still, doesn't this all suggest "an awful lot" is a fair estimate?
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