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| Not Nigel Swift |
"It is noteworthy that it isn’t just The Establishment that has maintained a profound silence about ongoing nighthawking on the Staffordshire Hoard field, it is detectorists – who have said not a single public word about it.* see post below [note by PMB]
Until today, when this extraordinary attack on us by one “Geoman” appeared on the “UK and European Metal Detecting Forum”:
“then we have the internet Trolls trying hard to incite criminals, or potential thinking about it criminals, to hawk the Staffs hoard site. I am sure there is some criminal offence in inciting others to commit a crime so perhaps the heritage police will look into it.”
So, the position is this:The whole situation is completely barmy".
- any remaining portions of the Staffordshire Hoard are almost certainly being progressively stolen
- but The Establishment (whose function is to protect heritage) has said nothing
- and detectorists (who are “only in it for the love of history”) have also said nothing
- until today, when the only people that HAVE said anything (ourselves and Paul Barford) have been labelled as trolls* who are speaking out about it in order to incite people to do it.
