UK Metal Detecting Blogs

With some 27000 of them in England and wales alone, according to Sam Hardy, it is interesting to note how few metal detector using artefact hunters ('passionately interested in history') are actually blogging about that passion. Seeing as their discussions on forums demonstrate that few of them can  cope with texts longer than seven sentences anyway, perhaps that is not surprising. If anyone would like me to add any they know of, please comment.

Addicted to Bleeps (discontinued?) Kris Rodgers

Andy's treasure hunting cafe and metal detecting blog Andy Baines

Aurelia's Metal Detecting, One Woman and her Deus

Detecting and Collecting John Howland

Digging History/Detecting Blackpool (Discontinued)

Janner53`s Metal Detecting Blog (invited readers only)

John Brassey Notes from Retirement

John Winter John Winter

The Daily Detectorist (discontinued)

The Detectorist Metal Detector Reviews Site

The Ogley Dirt Farmer wozelbeak, 

 

Discussing Erosion of Archaeological Information by Artefact Hunting

Responsible detectorists apparently want to help preserve historical sites, not this one though, he just wants to protect the hobby, does not care a tinkers about the scale of the erosion it is causing:

Kismet, Hardy, et al.  Posted on July 12, 2018 by John Howland

Oh, how I’m loving this. It’s truly gratifying, heart-warming even, for an old sceptic like me, watching the anti-detecting brigade’s  turd polishers in full panic mode. Here they are rushing about  like headless chickens  trying to burnish both the heavily tarnished ersatz data that is Heritage Action’s widely censured ‘Artefact Erosion Counter,’ and Dr Sam Hardy’s laughable, academically slammed, anti-metal detecting research Paper.  The  fox of truth is running wild in the  henhouse of bullshit.
Their collective eleventh-hour, face-saving attempts to pump any semblance of accuracy – or life even –  into the corpse of their aggressive, cock-and-bull, detecting-averse narrative is NOT of Lazarus proportions.  Their long-overdue humiliation is utterly enjoyable to watch. Their smears, propaganda, false data, and fake news, have all been spectacularly exposed.
Samples of their  turd polishing twaddle is freely available. A trip to the undistinguished Paul Barford’s  blog for example, or to the fatuous Heritage Journal’s is illuminating.  Both are pedestrian at best;  relying on  teenage angst [“it’s  soooo unfair”] in reply to critics; heavy on evangelism; and disingenuous in content. Their stab at fumigating  their matinée idol’s flawed research Paper – following its critical mauling at the hands of an internationally renowned team of distinguished heritage professionals – ain’t making it.
Guffaw, guffaw, guffaw. Large ones all round.