degotoga t1_iubntwp wrote
Reply to comment by brickhamilton in Bronze Age gold belt with 'cosmological' designs unearthed in Czech beet field by quiver03
It’s probably pretty obvious in most cases. Hard to explain why you’re digging holes in random locations
brickhamilton t1_iubotlw wrote
It just seems you could say it was poking out of the ground or you found it in a stream or you were planting a garden or anything else, really. They might have evidence that’s not true, but I think that’s unlikely. Why even have a metal detector rule like that?
degotoga t1_iubzh5a wrote
It’s to stop treasure hunting for profit. So while that might work once you probably wouldn’t get away with it a second time
Potatobender44 t1_iueeahf wrote
Why would you want to stop people from potentially unearthing cool historical artifacts? I would think you would want to incentivize it
degotoga t1_iuesw25 wrote
The idea is to incentivize trained scientists through grants while discouraging amateurs and treasure hunters. In most cases the latter can do more damage than good. See Egypt as a case study
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