I suppose it is a bit like telling someone to get off at the Billy Mill Roundabout/ Hyndford Bridge/ Whitletts Roundabout when they are galloping full tilt towards draining their spuds...
How much more would we have known (or do we need to know) about the Romans and the way they buried vast pots of coins. if we'd let the archaeologists uncover the rest of the coins and bits of old pot? No-one knows. I can kinda understand how tricky it might be to turn around and leave an unlocked hole full of gold and wander off to try and find the nearest off-duty archaeologist.
I wonder if the guy up near Stirling who "found-the-four-gold-torcs-all-in-the-same-hole-the-very-first-time-he-ever-went-metal-detecting" could have stopped at the first one? Or could any of us?
If we dont pay these guys for their finds they'll get sold on eBay, to the dark side of collectors, melted down for scrap value or just lie in sacks in some geezer's welly cupboard.
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