Is it me or am I being critical. I am now coming up to 84 and I think I know a little about life having lived so long but I was discusted at the way Time Team treat us metal detectorists,
I recorded Sunday nights programme and watched it this afternoon , it was about the residential area that King George III spent about 10 years of his life.
All of the palace had been robbed out but in the back gound was two detecorists who must have been told where they should stand.
Now whethr they were one like us or part of the other gang I don't know but what I do know is that the arkies are still agaist the name "Detectorist" as if we are the reason bubonic plague was spread around.
Out of no-where they came up with one find, it was a coin of George III in pretty grotty condition. It did not take me two seonds to recognise it was a 'token' which obviously had been worn about ones person for many years but what struck me was the the obverse head was practically non-existent wich in my estimation was scraped offby someone who hated the monarch, similar of most of Mary coins.
The reverse as not too bad, at least it could be seen but looked as if it had been in someones pocket or purse over a long period of time.
Now this is where I really come in, the 'coin' was famliarly bent one way and then the other to denote it was a keepsake but without that dreadful word being uttered Robinson said " Does anyone know why it is shaped like this".
My bet is that the detectorists told them but the arkies did not believe them.
On and on it goes. I think we can learn them a thing or two about old coins and artefacts.
I still have my faculties.
