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Re: It's all hogwash
Oct 17, 2015, 12:10
nigelswift wrote:
https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/nighthawking-and-knowledge-theft-putting-both-in-perspective/


'The Counter may or may not be a precise reflection of the rate of depletion (and in our view it is almost certainly a very considerable under-estimate) but the broad picture it paints - of millions of artefacts being needlessly taken and society being wantonly deprived of most of the associated knowledge of its past - appears to be perfectly accurate and is at odds with the current "official" account'.

Two things Nigel...and meant in a none argumentative manner:-

The 'may or may not' is not good enough, it IS a precise rate of depletion that is required but of course it never will be.

Secondly and in regard to 'artefacts being needlessly taken and society being wantonly deprived of most of the associated knowledge of its past'.

100% accurate of course, but how much of this unknown knowledge would have been gained if not discovered by detectorists in the first instance? A great many 'finds' are discovered in areas totally ignored by archaeologists because the history they do know has ruled those area out.
Yes we are losing a great deal, but at the same time gaining a lot from the good guys that are reporting their finds, so somehow a balance must be found on all sides because it is very unlikely to stop, illegal or not. At the end of the day we have to be realistic I feel.
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