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Archaeologists and the like
softparade
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Anybody ever get harassed by one when detecting? The antiquities federal laws. I'm not talking about something absurd like galloping out into the field of Gettysburg with a detector and a shovel where Picketts Charge went down. Just normal everyday detecting.
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It's as big a part of the biz as your equipment, perhaps bigger.
<< <i>This is not unheard of. Solution? I dunno exactly. Ask permission first. Remain on private land. Try to establish rapport with authorities. The Custer Battlefield was a very sucessful co-operation between detectorites and the authorities. Be SURE you are where you have the right to be where you are. Ask. Be nice. Accept 'no' when you receive it. Be grateful when you get a 'yes'. It ain't gonna get easier in the future so........
It's as big a part of the biz as your equipment, perhaps bigger. >>
Good advice!
Which is not to say I don't respect archaeologists- I certainly do. I wish I'd gotten the formal education necessary to be one. But sometimes they're ivory-tower academic types who can't see the forest for the trees, or the trees for the pollen analysis... whatever. You know what I mean. It is a little too much like hard science for me to be a good fit in a career like that, but I certainly find much of what they do fascinating, and important. I wish that feeling were reciprocated a little bit, and that we "amateurs" were given at least a little grudging respect instead of being treated like marauding barbarian hordes. (Admittedly, we DO have more than our share of bad apples and barbarians in our midst, though.)