by Tess Machling
By Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Hello again folks. Hope you all had a nice break? A few things have happened since the last blog, so I thought I'd write a quick update. If this is the first you've seen of all this, then do …
Continue reading "The APPAG Detecting Inquiry and an update on donations."
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasingly large numbers of finds are being exported overseas, never to be seen again. This export of our shared national heritage is …
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleague. For various reasons, the writer of this blog prefers to remain anonymous, but I can vouch …
Continue reading "“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales"
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Introduction Following on from my blog last week, I have been trying to find out exactly how much is being paid out each year to individuals and landowners in 'rewards' for their 'Treasure' finds. This information is not straightforward …
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) - the detectorist-facing branch of archaeology - which provides the framework for the application of the 1996 Treasure Act is stretched beyond capacity: the Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs) who run the scheme day-to-day …
Continue reading "The system is broken, so why are we not more concerned?"
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14548720 I've been meaning to write this piece for years, but a recent increase in the number of significant archaeological finds which have been removed from the ground, by folks with little …
Continue reading "Detecting and torcs: a researcher’s view."
The Big Book of Torcs 