The illicit antiquities trade is composed of a diverse population of participants that gives the
appearance of complexity; however, using the network paradigm, a simple underlying …

Through netnographic analysis of online forums and social networks, this study presents
quantitative analysis of the scale and intensity of metal detecting and the quantity of metal …

Hobby metal detecting is a controversial subject. Legal and policy approaches differ widely
across national and regional contexts, and the attitudes of archaeologists and heritage …

This paper is a review and a critical evaluation of the development of (aspects of) legislation,
policy and practice regarding non-professional archaeological metal detecting in Flanders. It …

Metal detecting has become a vivid area of citizen science. In many countries where metal
detecting is legal, the rapidly increasing number of finds submitted to authorities managing …

The term 'heritage crime'has been recently brought into the spotlight by English Heritage—
the organization tasked with protecting England's heritage assets—and is attracting an …

Metal detecting is a popular hobby in England and Wales, and, since 1997, over 1.3 million
finds have been recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), a scheme to …

Abstract In England and Wales there exists a corpus of unprovenanced and unrecorded
antiquities; a corpus adrift from archaeological context and now ebbing and flowing across …

Archaeology and private artefact collecting have complex and inextricably linked histories.
Archaeologists have long drawn attention to criminal activity among collectors, but to …

The sudden emergence of metal-detector users and subsequent swelling of their numbers
rocked the field of professional archaeology due to the impact that the use of metal detectors …