Sanctuary
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Re: Detectorists/Puppy Love
Nov 23, 2014, 16:12
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Evergreen Dazed wrote: Sort of on-topic, anybody watching this on BBC4? I'm really enjoying it.
Close on the heels of the brilliant Detectorists is this, also on BBC4. Reminded me of the former immediately although not connected in any way other than something many will feel empathy with. Hilarious!
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/puppy-love-bbc4-tv-review-a-very-funny-slowbuild-show-with-slyly-smart-characters-9873923.html
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tjj
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Edited Nov 23, 2014, 18:01
Re: Detectorists/Puppy Love
Nov 23, 2014, 17:35
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Sanctuary wrote:
Its on the same channel and in the same time slot. There the similarity ends ... though I'm not saying it isn't funny in a very quirky sort of way.
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Sanctuary
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Re: Detectorists
Jan 02, 2015, 11:59
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HUZZAGH...One up for the real detectorists.
Like or loathe them like some obsessive people do, this hoard, in all probability, may never have been found without their help. Just think of the many treasures that could still be lying out there awaiting discovery by enthusiastic and free-thinking people out enjoying their hobby. We all know about the bad eggs but let's celebrate the good guys helping us rediscover out past. Might just think about investing in one myself ;-)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/i-just-coined-1m-skint-4906903
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tjj
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Re: Detectorists
Jan 02, 2015, 15:48
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Sanctuary wrote: HUZZAGH...One up for the real detectorists.
Like or loathe them like some obsessive people do, this hoard, in all probability, may never have been found without their help. Just think of the many treasures that could still be lying out there awaiting discovery by enthusiastic and free-thinking people out enjoying their hobby. We all know about the bad eggs but let's celebrate the good guys helping us rediscover out past. Might just think about investing in one myself ;-)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/i-just-coined-1m-skint-4906903
The Detectorists was funny because it was about obsessives. I do hope that this news story doesn't encourage too many more people to go stomping around the countryside waving their detectors in front of them.
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nigelswift
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Re: Detectorists
Jan 02, 2015, 16:15
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I confess to being an obsessive and indeed a bore about the subject so I won't say much but I would like to clarify that I'm not anti metal detecting at all, just anti-metal detecting bad practice - and so should everyone on TMA be because bad practice = loss of the historical knowledge that is the essence of TMA.
(BTW, my attitude and that of everyone on TMA hopefully, is totally identical to that of the CBA, http://new.archaeologyuk.org/best-practice so it's not exactly eccentric or ill-founded).
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Detectorists
Jan 02, 2015, 17:54
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nigelswift wrote: ...I'm not anti metal detecting at all, just anti-metal detecting bad practice - and so should everyone on TMA be because bad practice = loss of the historical knowledge that is the essence of TMA.
This.
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Howburn Digger
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Re: Detectorists
Jan 02, 2015, 19:55
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thesweetcheat wrote: nigelswift wrote: ...I'm not anti metal detecting at all, just anti-metal detecting bad practice - and so should everyone on TMA be because bad practice = loss of the historical knowledge that is the essence of TMA.
This.
No, that.
"That" is correct.
And I think it is pre-historical knowledge that is is the basis of TMA.
Rather than knowledge of the historical period.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Detectorists
Jan 02, 2015, 22:47
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Okay - that.
Anyway, have you seen the Youtube footage of the way this hoard was "excavated"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLY1YQbgdwA&feature=youtu.be
No thought given to any context or proper recording, just digging a hole to get the loot. That's what's being lost, even where the finds are declared, etc. Historic or prehistoric, all the same.
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