Heritage Action have a post up today called "A tale of two Staffordshire fields" a pretty innocuous text, one would have thought. A casual mention following it that I'd written something about the costs of guarding a site however elicited the following response from one of the ASPD folk in the UK metal detecting fraternity:
graham [Chetwynd] 25/08/2013 at 11:48:What a treat that will be. Mr Chetwynd coming to Poland to have an articulate discussion about metal detecting. In fact, if he lets me know in advance I'll book him up to give a talk to all those lost souls at the University here that want to believe that the Portable Antiquity Scheme is achieving great things. Let them meet a real metal detectorist from England, I think between us, Mr Chetwynd and I can pretty soon disabuse them of any illusions.
Mr barford we will meet soon and then we can have A PROPER CHAT .just me and you see you soon Graham xx
Nigel S 25/08/2013 at 12:07:
Mr Chetwynd, I take it that’s a physical threat, like the late-night telephoned one you delivered to me. Paul isn’t a member of Heritage Action but I’ll pass it on to him.
graham 25/08/2013 at 13:32:
Take it exactly how you want to but its a promise to be honest.
NCMD Code of Conduct ( Appendix A to the NCMD Constitution):Vignette: Part of the Chetwynd logo (motto: "Success through effort", Mr Chetwynd is putting a lot of effort into his interactions with this blog, his actual achievements however remain to be seen).
9) Remember that[...] you are an ambassador for our hobby. Do nothing that might give it a bad name. 10) Never miss an opportunity to explain your hobby to anyone who asks about it.
