I wanted to point some US metal detectorists in the direction of what some of their UK counterparts are up to and why I consider debate on these issues is so necessary. When however I tried to provide them with a link to the Portable Antiquities Society's website it appears that it had moved. Their secret forum seems to be down too. Several of their You Tube videos are still online though.
So, what happened, did the long arm of Bloomsbury reach out to Cheltenham to have a gentle word with this group about its misleading name, did the police have a word about some of the stuff that was on their forum? Was there a falling out of the group members maybe (infighting over a hoard find maybe?) or are they in the course of transfer to a bigger and better web platform? Time will tell.
