tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17341429474492179452024-02-19T23:05:00.752-08:00"Ambassadors for the Hobby" The Stuff Antiquity Collectors SayThis blog is <a href="http://detectoristcopywrite.blogspot.com/2008/10/purpose-of-this-blog.html">intended</a> to cover side issues emerging from the discussions of artefact collecting (including metal detecting) on my "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/">Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues</a>" blog. This allows answering misleading points which may require it without sidetracking of other discussions onto unrelated topics, thus freeing the main blog for more serious stuff.Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-8016066731590252672020-10-23T01:08:00.000-07:002020-10-23T01:08:07.571-07:00"What Archaeologists Hate"<p></p><a href="https://detectingandcollecting.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/be-alert-to-the-gil-syndrome/#more-2267" target="_blank">UK metal detectorist</a>: "Be in no doubt… archaeology’s radicals hate this illustration as much as they will hate you for using it"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpCRDW3oSCNZmOh7l1TZ0EbkgG6xaqzTcad4MrooaFHPIWqazadbsYCkE9Ed1AE_kpSrNBIYyre6TD5ZlPjA3zRRU8W1Mdz2k9HMS7urq1URSvkGuFrw2U3g8kxcAE-gB1Ubn4vUwf-kC/s1412/strata-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpCRDW3oSCNZmOh7l1TZ0EbkgG6xaqzTcad4MrooaFHPIWqazadbsYCkE9Ed1AE_kpSrNBIYyre6TD5ZlPjA3zRRU8W1Mdz2k9HMS7urq1URSvkGuFrw2U3g8kxcAE-gB1Ubn4vUwf-kC/s320/strata-3.png" /></a></div><br /></div><p>I think they probably hate ignorance more. </p><br />Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-27320898109892447272020-06-06T01:30:00.002-07:002020-06-06T01:30:37.838-07:00Dishonourable Metal Detectorists' Forum MDF <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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9. Remember that you are an ambassador for our hobby. Do nothing that might give it a bad name.<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-69785196381939827752019-12-26T04:42:00.001-08:002019-12-26T04:42:10.095-08:00More Bazthugwittery: Brexit Isolationism Welcomed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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GREAT news [is] looming on the horizon for both the UK and its metal [sic] community now that our departure from the EU’s clutches takes effect from January 2020. But not everyone’s joyful. Simply cock an ear to the prevailing wind and you might just catch a faint, curious, grinding sound breezing in. What you’re hearing is archaeology’s loony left panic-stricken wing (and no, they’re not all locked up) wailing and gnashing their teeth at Boris Johnson’s Conservative landslide win in the General Election. Their policies to submit us to further EU bureaucracy and more anti-detecting/collecting legislation have all the permanency of a snowman in the Sahara.
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<b>It follows that our hobby/pastime will be rid of the EU’s unelected Commissioners who’ve previously tried, unsuccessfully, to outlaw the hobby</b>. The bad news for our detectorist colleagues in Europe is that they are still yoked to authoritarian laws and diktats. One of these was a 1941 law passed in Nazi-occupied France and ‘interpreted’ decades later to restrict hobbyists – as a counter metal detecting’s growing popularity there.
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To my reader and follower….have a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, and LUCRATIVE 2020.</blockquote>
British heritage policy always was aberrant in Europe, now the detectorists are isolated in a separatist regime, it remains to see what will happen.<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-54248151724080911452019-11-25T23:02:00.000-08:002019-12-26T05:01:08.675-08:00Artefacts Stolen From Train in Durham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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British Transport Police are looking for an individual who took a bag left by a passenger from London who forgot to take it when they left the train in Durham. The bag contained a Late Medieval ring and a Late Roman fibula (BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-50488405">Ring and brooch 'treasures' taken from Edinburgh-bound train</a> 20th Nov 2019):<br />
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The rare jewellery was left in a red plastic bag in the overhead locker by a passenger who disembarked at Durham.
However, the items were not handed into lost property and are now presumed stolen, said British Transport Police.
The medieval ring, which was left with the brooch in a red plastic Aldi bag, has the inscription "<i>o mi hart is yovrs</i>" (oh my heart is yours) on its inside.
The passenger who left the items was travelling from London to Durham on an Edinburgh-bound service.
The jewellery is thought to have been taken sometime between the evening of 4 October and 12.30 on Saturday 5 October.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The ring <span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">was recorded by the PAS: <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/923191">DUR-05020D</a> </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Weds Oct 24th 2018 (Treasure case 2018T790). </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brooch wa</span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">s also recorded by the Durham FLO (on </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monday 18th June 2018, </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/906734">DUR-7DDAA3</a>, Treasure case 2018T429). Interestingly, both records were 'updated' Monday 18th November 2019 - but not with the information that they'd been stolen. </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">The photos used in the article are attributed to the Transport Police, but are in fact PAS photos. It seems a lot of the details are (deliberately?) fogged. How did the person with the </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">red plastic<a href="https://www.mashed.com/154042/huge-scandals-that-completely-rocked-aldi/"> Aldi bag</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">come by these artefacts? </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">PAS has in the past used orange plastic Sainsbury's bags, would the artefacts have been safer in one of them?. </span></span><br />
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Note that Baz was really loath to mention this case until the men were convicted and sentenced: Just desserts…..
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The two Welsh detectorists found a nationally important hoard of coins and artefacts Worcester Crown Court was told and that they ignored the law which states such finds must be properly declared. Instead they tried to sell the items in small batches and one of the pair was nabbed as he tried to sell five of the coins to an undercover cop.[...] these two idiots have done the hobby no favours and their actions tarnish us all with the thieving brush. I have no sympathy with them at all. If they can’t take a joke* they shouldn’t have joined. End of.
It’s also a timely warning to others who might be tempted. The Treasure laws over here are so good, there is no need to do as these idiots did – they fully deserve all they got.
I feel sorry for the Welsh detecting clubs of which they were members – they have an uphill struggle to disassociate themselves from these criminals.
These convictions are manna from Heaven for the ‘anti’ lobby on archaeology’s loony wing who are in a feeding frenzy and this kind of ‘sexy’ news has doubtless given some of them erections.</blockquote>
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A new secret Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/460129227681431/465626140465073/">The Detectorists Metal detecting uk</a>. Remember, the members' credo is<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-661133849384154542019-09-05T23:06:00.000-07:002019-12-26T05:15:43.474-08:00More Bazthugwittery: 'on Conservation'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to Baz, conservation of archaeological sites does not really make much sense, but - in his opinion - is a form of '<a href="https://detectingandcollecting.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/knowledge-loss-by-neglect/">Knowledge loss… by neglect</a>', posted on September 3, 2019 by "John Howland"<br />
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I recently stumbled across a bizarre idea [...]
“…it is better to leave objects and other evidence in the ground where it has been lying safely for hundreds or thousands of years. Here it remains safe for future generations to investigate with better techniques and with better-informed questions to ask.”
Whoever dreamt up such idiocy obviously didn’t think it through to its logical conclusion. [...] Well, arkies and arkiedom, that’s fine…so don’t dig, be happy, but don’t try and palm this lunacy off on detectorists as ‘best practice.’ [...] [we, who] want no truck with the insanity of abandoning artefacts to the tender mercies of chemical deterioration, will rightly cast it aside as poor heritage practice and continue to bring fabulous historical items into the light of day for study and evaluation.
<b>Also, never let it be said it’s unethical to sell, or profit from any object found</b> [...] What is unethical, is leaving artefacts in the ground [...]
The utter lunacy of leaving valuable and notionally historical objects in the ground not only robs the heritage but seriously short-changes the public.
It amounts to knowledge loss by neglect.</blockquote>
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-8640798973852708592019-05-13T23:41:00.000-07:002019-12-26T07:48:38.112-08:00More Bazthugwittery: Fighting the Flies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The People want to <a href="https://autonomies.org/2019/10/11423/">overthrow<br /> their oppressors</a></td></tr>
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Metal detectorist "John Howland" in "<a href="https://detectingandcollecting.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/dodge-city/#more-1136">Dodge City</a>" on May 9, 2019 at 6:39 pm reckons that:
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Archaeological grip on the heritage is fortunately diminishing and they are clinging to power by their fingertips. Joe and Jill Public are pursuing their own heritage ambitions using their own means; and that often means using a metal detector. Their discoveries are simply amazing. Metal detecting, like relic collecting is wholesome, educational, and beneficial to the greater heritage good. Like it or not, some in our pastime don’t realise the struggle for metal detecting freedom has a serious political dimension.
<b>Our hobby has been so successful the British Government can’t afford to pay the LEGAL dues to finders under the laws of Treasure Trove</b>; a situation the Comrades have jumped on to further their own stinking political ambitions to control populist heritage research and mug the populace of their property. Archaeology, especially here in the UK, has always attracted politicos of the extreme Left like flies to a turd [...] The real tragedy is that archaeology’s ordinary rank-and-file, the decent guys, can’t or won’t believe how they are being suckered in. [...]
The truth always wins through in the end. It might take time and probably a few tears, but we’ll get there.</blockquote>
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-64861307311926057202018-12-26T23:34:00.002-08:002018-12-27T12:54:31.268-08:00Detectorists Label Conservation a 'Fascist' ideology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Detectorist John Howland apparently hates the notion of conservation which is apparently beyond his understanding ('<a href="https://us.whales.org/issues/whaling-in-japan">Japanese Whalers on the march… Ecological Fascism – Stamp it out NOW!</a> ' Detecting and Collecting.wordpress.com
Posted on <a href="https://detectingandcollecting.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/swedish-tekkies-on-the-march-archaeological-fascism-stamp-it-out-now/#more-946">December 23, 2018</a>). He starts off by referring to the PACHI blog: </div>
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not often you’ll see a vote of thanks on here from me to an
undistinguished anti-metal detecting heritologist, but, over on a
certain pisspoor blog, its perpetrator details a petition Japanese
whalers are formulating – much to the outrage of the usual suspects – is
now gaining glorious momentum by the hour. To find out why some
heritage halfwits are frothing at the gob, pop over to:-<br />
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/bring-fair-metal-detecting-laws-to-sweden/sign">https://www.change.org/p/scrap-anti-whaling-conventions-for-Japan/sign</a></blockquote>
and add your <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-12-25/japan-to-withdraw-from-international-whaling-commission">name
in support of our Japanese colleagues trying to bring about an end to
restrictions on their decimation of the marine mammal population</a> and in <a href="https://dickrussell.org/2006/06/27/the-truth-about-traditional-japanese-whaling/">improving conditions for their industry</a>
in a world where it is illegal for ship owners to go out and bloodily
slaughter whales and calves metal in their marine backyard, with risk of
a prison sentence if they do. <b>This is an astonishing breech </b>(sic) <b>of freedom and Human
Rights.</b> If this kind of repression was aimed at the gay community,
ethnic minorities, or say the disabled, there would rightly be uproar.
<b>It must stop…NOW!
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Having just used the 'playing the victim' card to bolster the position of the exploiters, he continues with a group <i>ad hom</i> aimed at conservationists opposed to reckless and damaging exploitation:<br />
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This tyranny is ‘ecological narcissism’ incarnate and survives in
conservation’s darker niches [...] 'Ecological Narcissism’ enjoys a
hand-in-blouse relationship with ‘Ecological Elitism’– a form of
Ecological Fascism. [...] A victory for our Japanese friends will not
only advance civil freedoms but will also help further expose the
cerebral dweorgs’ banal ersatz data that is… Ecological Fascism.</blockquote>
Remember, Conservation-averse artefact hunters often talk like idiots and cannot stop themselves from behaving like idiots. <br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-4733864552171914672018-10-05T22:50:00.000-07:002019-01-06T22:55:53.887-08:00a few nasty individuals that can often ruin it for the rest.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In brief....<br />Steve Taylor initially claimed that he was pissed of because Gary had used their friendship to find permissions in his area....he initially stated that he had permission near Sisters Farm, which he later changed to having the permission next door, which ultimately became it was his farm and Gary stole it from him. - he also claimed that him and his friends had detected it a number of times but had found nothing but a few buttons...clearly designed to put people off.<br />Claims were also made that Gary used his sob story to get permissions and that most of the charity money would be pocketed by us. There were also a whole load of nasty and malicious comments made, some of the screenshots are below for those that want to read them.... but the bottom line is this.<br />Our club had the permission before Gary even met Steve Taylor. And none of the four landowners had ever heard of him, nor did they recognise his photo.<br />Interestingly, there were many, many hundreds of finds made across the whole site...hundreds of Roman coins and brooches...numerous Roman artefacts...3 x silver staters, 2 x bronze staters...Saxon button brooch, Viking stirrup mount...and a whole collection of medieval coins and artefacts....but very few buttons! So, make of that what you will...</blockquote>
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Gary has personal permissions amounting to many thousands of acres, he doesn’t need to use Steve Taylor, nor ‘sob stories’ to gain any more....<br />Gary was subjected to a tirade of abuse and insults from Steve Taylor and his cronies, which were totally uncalled for, especially given that he had recently lost his dad.<br />Gary and his lovely wife Lisa worked tirelessly to organise this event, supported by our club, the Trowbridge & District MDC of whom I am proud to be Chairman.<br />We WILL be making this an annual event, and we look forward to seeing you all again next year.<br />Oh, and the cheque for the Cancer Care Unit will be for £27,000!! All accounts are available for anyone that wants to see them.<br />And from us all, our huge and sincere thanks to all of you for your amazing support and for making it such a huge and successful event.<br />See you next year.....</blockquote>
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The Full Facts<br />1. A few years ago, the Trowbridge & District MDC was introduced to the landowner of Sisters Farm via a mutual friend of one of our members. The farmers wife was raising money for charity, so with their permission, we held a club day on three of the fields which raised £800 for their charity. As a result, we were invited to go back any time we liked.<br />2. Shortly after, Gary Cook was at Detectival and met Steve Taylor for the first time. As a result, they did some detecting on each other’s permissions.<br />3. The TDMC held two more club days for charity in Wiltshire, Gary invited Steve Taylor along and he attended both.<br />4. Sadly, around that time Gary’s dad developed cancer and he tragically passed away sometime after.<br />5. Gary wanted to raise funds for the Bath Royal United Hospital Cancer Care Unit, who took care of his dad throughout.<br />6. We decided to hold the memorial rally, we explored a few options but because of the facilities, we decided to make sisters farm our plan A. Fortunately, the landowner was happy to support us.<br />7. Not only did he support us, he also approached his neighbours and in all, we had over 30 fields to detect on, owned by four separate landowners.<br />8. When Steve Taylor complained, we checked with all four landowners and three stated that no one had permission to detect on their land, the fourth had an ‘old chap’ that had done a bit of detecting in the past, but it wasn’t Steve Taylor. None of them recognised his photo either.<br />9.<b> Steve Taylor’s claims were initially that he had permissions in the area, and that he didn’t want 350 ‘knuckle dragging morons’ descending onto his area...mainly because 50% of detectorists are night hawks that would use the rally as a cover to visit the surrounding area at night....yep, he really said that....</b><br />10. That swiftly changed to it being his farm and as proof he posted a handwritten agreement, with sister farm mention, but the agreement wasn’t signed nor dated! Seriously!<b><br />Unfortunately, this nasty and vindictive individual tried to ruin what was a noble cause</b>. He failed. He has stated that he will be taking us and the landowner to court. I hope he has very deep pockets.<br />Our huge and sincere thanks to you all for your amazing support and for making it such a huge and successful event.<br />See you next year....</blockquote>
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-35767702166364425042018-07-15T02:38:00.000-07:002018-07-15T02:40:12.557-07:00UK Metal Detecting Blogs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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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.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.bleeps.me/" target="_blank">Addicted to Bleeps</a> (discontinued?) <span style="background-color: white;">Kris Rodgers</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.treasurehunterscafe.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">Andy's treasure hunting cafe and metal detecting blog</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Andy Baines</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://detectingandcollecting.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Detecting and Collecting</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> John Howland</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://detectingblackpool.wordpress.com/">Digging History/Detecting Blackpool</a> (Discontinued)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http://janner53.blogspot.com/">Janner53`s Metal Detecting Blog</a> (invited readers only)</span><br />
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<a href="http://johnbrassey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">John Brassey Notes from Retirement</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.johnwinter.net/jw/" target="_blank">John Winter</a> John Winter</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.thedetectorist.co.uk/" style="font-family: inherit;">The Detectorist</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> Metal Detector Reviews Site</span><br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-33290366035292799302018-07-13T23:29:00.002-07:002018-07-13T23:36:07.528-07:00Discussing Erosion of Archaeological Information by Artefact Hunting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>Oh, how I’m loving this.</u></strong> 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.<br />
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. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Their long-overdue humiliation is utterly enjoyable to watch.</strong> Their smears, propaganda, false data, and fake news, have all been spectacularly exposed.<br />
Samples of their turd polishing twaddle is freely available. A trip to the undistinguished Paul Barford’s blog for example, or to the fatuous <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heritage Journal’s</em> is illuminating. Both are pedestrian at best; relying on teenage angst [“<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it’s soooo unfair”</em>] 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 <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">distinguished heritage professionals</strong> – ain’t making it.<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-16427286977368761882018-05-20T11:52:00.001-07:002018-05-20T11:55:38.277-07:00Hedge Fodder Among Artefact Collectors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The childlike John Winter is complaining because not all of the comments on his <a href="http://www.johnwinter.net/jw/2018/05/a-metal-detecting-glossary/">"metal detecting glossary"</a> are pats on the back.<br />
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"Inundated", TWO posts? That's a little bit of an exaggeration innit, M8? So, how do you stop people who do not agree with all you say reading your blog John? Make it invited visitors only, that's how. Like most metal detecting forums, which are rigged that way so the stakeholders (public) cannot see what members are up to and saying. <br />
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Really John, you can keep your readers in the dark by deleting substantive comments and playing the victim, but one day <b>the bright ones will find you out</b>.<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-84821039750024224432017-12-19T23:03:00.000-08:002019-12-26T04:16:58.251-08:00Bazthugwittery Begins Attacks on "Heritologists"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Baz Thugwit has a new 'nick' on Wordpress. Now he's calling himself "John Howland", it seems, and has started under that name a new blog "Detecting and collecting" (motto: '<i>Detector-averse heritologists talk like idiots and even look like idiots, but don’t be fooled – they really are… idiots</i>')*.
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: '<a href="https://detectingandcollecting.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/trends-traitors/#more-152">Trends and traitors</a>'. Does not seem much like detecting and collecting to me. See what you make of it. <br />
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What, actually is a "Heritologist"? It seems the former bus driver is having a go at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies">Cultural Studies</a>. I wonder what he actually knows about the field. We shall see.<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-8025928385219790202017-11-12T22:57:00.000-08:002017-11-30T05:44:31.664-08:00Steve Taylor wants a debate (1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just noticed a thumbs down dislike symbol , there are a few sad bastards around who hate anyone else finding nice objects and sharing them on You Tube. Can't understand why anyone would dislike metal detecting videos if they were a true hobbyist. Always a few retards in the hobby ! lol</span> :</blockquote>
The notion never seemed to occur to him that there might be a few heritage conscious individuals looking on who consider that collection driven exploitation of the archaeological record in the manner shown here is damaging to the public interest. Anyhow, Mr Taylor responds thus:<br />
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Here below is the video, and then below it let us see what happens when people using their real name, not some screen pseudonym publish comments critical of the way metal detecting is depleting the archaeological record and the attitudes of metal detector users to comments.<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-79440834597312639692017-11-11T23:08:00.000-08:002017-11-11T23:08:39.627-08:00Detectorist Steve Taylor 'Wants a Debate'? (2)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I thought it would be an enlightening insight into the way some metal detectorists in the UK think and attempt to enter the international debate on the issues surrounding collection-driven exploitation of the archaeological record. These are all real comments sent to me from Mr Steve Taylor for publication on my blog and retrieved from the rejected comments folder of my blog. Note the engaging way he creates an offensive screen name (he uses others, worse) and then the way he twists my surname and the misogynous terminology common among the mostly middle-aged-male detecting community. The first batch are from a post I did about the nasty trend among artefact collectors to use doxing as a weapon against their critics:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
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Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...</a>": <br />Still being a CUNT, Barffart. Thought you may have died by now, but alas you're
still here. Soon be time to play a few games with you, like the good old days.
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Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...</a>": <br />Oh by the way that photograph is copyright. Leave it up at your own risk !
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Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...</a>": <br />I would be very careful about accusing people of stalking and posting personal
information on line, as <b>I have a whole file on you, </b>which was also recorded on
Google at the time. Along with your Steve Taylor scrap metal dealer. Those who
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Then the reaction to the capture on film of some illegal metal detecting going on near his home<br />
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Illegal Artefact Hunting: Update</a>": <br />I recognize the one on the left who looks like a Neanderthal, low brow, small
brain, works in the dark, lives in Poland, hey that's a photofit of you Paul.
Tell everyone how <b>you sent two criminals to Poulton</b>, on Spot the hoard contest
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This then became a xenophobic accusation:<br />
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Illegal Artefact Hunting: Update</a>": <br />Not very nice you Poles to fellow men. lol <a href="http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/09/17/over-30000-furious-poles-chant-fck-islam-on-the-streets-of-poland-as-the-invasion-of-europe-is-growing-more-intense-each-day/">http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/09/17/over-30000-furious-poles-chant-fck-islam-on-the-streets-of-poland-as-the-invasion-of-europe-is-growing-more-intense-each-day/</a>
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by the way, I am English (one wonders at the press Mr Taylor follows). More on the nighthawking issue<br />
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Responsible detectorists caught "Ni...</a>": <br />I have an agreement signed on some bog paper Paul, I'll send you a copy. Be
careful of the Van Gogh sunflower in the middle. lol Maybe the next series will
feature a guy with a giant penis on his head, then we will all know how famous
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This incomprehensible scatology is followed by an attack on the Portable Antiquities Scheme when I discussed a funding problem:<br />
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Continuing the series of comments retrieved from the 'rejected' box of my blog, we get a telling view into the mind of a long-standing member of the British metal detecting community. Here is Mr Taylor referring to what I said about a Californian dealer publishing a text about 'Slaying Barford' - it is not just metal detectorists who fantasize about extreme resolutions of their problems with critics. After a long break from previous posts, it rather looks as if the self-focussed Mr Taylor has some kind of a notification system set up to alert him to the appearance of <b>his own name </b>in the blogosphere:<br />
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Demand for Antiquities</a>": <br />Any sign of life yet ! tick tock tick tock ! lol</span></blockquote>
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his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/06/xenophobism-uk.html">Xenophobism
UK</a>": <br />The best thing is we got rid of you Paul, <b>just one million to go !</b></span></blockquote>
[I believe this is a xenophobic reference to one million Poles living in the UK and a 'final solution' to the UK's 'problem' with internal expatriates]<br />
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his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/06/xenophobism-uk.html">Xenophobism
UK</a>": <br />So you staying in Europe Paul, no-one ever invited you back you cunt ! lol </span></blockquote>
the return of the urogenital terminology<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-brexit-will-mean-for-british.html">What
Brexit will mean for British Archaeology</a>": <br />The British Government has just announced that archaeologists will now be
sacked across Britain, as they are deemed to be worthless parasites, much like
Paul Barford. </span></blockquote>
Taylor's terminology here is very redolent of the antisemitic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eternal_Jew_(1940_film)#Jews_as_an_uncivilized_and_parasitic_people">Ewige Jude</a> trope, a prelude to the Final Solution.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/06/xenophobism-uk.html">Xenophobism
UK</a>": <br />PMSL</span></blockquote>
[for those unfamiliar with this kind of urogenital terminology, '<i>used to build identity through abusive language</i>', <a href="https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-pmsl-2483492">see here</a>]<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/06/xenophobism-uk.html">Xenophobism
UK</a>": <br /><b>We'll be turning up the gas soon ! lol </b></span></blockquote>
LOL? Another shameless reference to the 'Final Solution' ...<br />
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<b style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">TAKE A GOOD LOOK at this behaviour</b><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, for these are precisely the sort of people the PAS wants to grab more and more millions of public quid to make into the "partners" of the British Museum, archaeological heritage professionals and to whom they want us all to entrust the exploitation of the archaeological record. Take a good look and decide what you think about that as a "policy". </span><br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-53557806942981561612017-11-11T23:06:00.000-08:002017-11-11T23:09:37.499-08:00UK Detectorist Steve Taylor Says he 'Wants a Debate' (4)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Having revealed himself (see previous post) to have apparent neo-Fascist fantasies about 'turning up the gas' to rid the world of 'worthless parasites', Mr Taylor dropped silent again for a few weeks. But then becgan again 'seeking debate'. This one refers to British attitudes to foreigners living in their country:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/scary-foreign-academics-asked-to-leave.html">Scary
Foreign Academics Asked to Leave Britain</a>": <br />We have also blocked any 11+ grade archaeologists living in Poland from
returning to Britain, it seems we need qualified people in Britain. Mrs May
said <b>let those Polish Commy cunts rot in hell</b>, especially any going by the name
of Barford. lol </span></blockquote>
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his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/uk-treasure-hunters-go-agauinst-trend.html">UK
Treasure Hunters go Against the Trend</a>": <br />We only does it fer the monzees guv, I've just had to sell a few goldies to pay
fer me new Range rover, £65000 fucking quid, bloody rip off ! They ought to have
those car manufactures in court on living on immoral earnings. </span></blockquote>
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his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/archaeological-morons.html">Archaeological
Morons Pretending to be Clever</a>": <br />Yawn ! </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/dishonest-metal-detectorists-other-finds.html">Dishonest
Metal Detectorist's Other finds?</a>": <br />Yawn!</span></blockquote>
Then this, referring to the policeman who stole artefacts from the landowner:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes.html">Quis
custodiet ipsos custodes?</a>": <br />You need to felch him Paul, that will make him squeal ! lol </span></blockquote>
Those not familiar with the term will easily assume to which area of life (and human anatomy) it refers by glancing over the relatively limited range of the comments' author's 'interests'....<br />
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More xenophobic hate speech with homosexual undertones:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/anti-archaeology-outreach-flo-explains.html">Anti-Archaeology Outreach: FLO Explains Lego-Looti...</a>":<br />Oh Paul, I think I'm in love with you. Such a way with words, and you have that oh so rugged look, that has featured in those 70's porno movies, with macho beard and blue lips. Fuck me, blue lips, that mean a heart attack is imminent. Paul take it from me, don't come back to the UK for treatment, as the NHS is not what it was, as <b>there are too many Poles abusing the system</b>.</span></blockquote>
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his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/01/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes.html">Quis
custodiet ipsos custodes?</a>": <br />Itis ! lol</span></blockquote>
International Museum Day? More urogenital associations for the British metal detectorist:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/04/international-museum-day.html">International
Museum Day</a>": <br />We could Paul Barford's knob on show, although if it's the size of his brain it
may a bit disappointing! </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/04/international-museum-day.html">International
Museum Day</a>": <br />You should be grateful for my comments, as no one else reads your crap anymore.
lol </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2016/03/paul-barford-buys-metal-detector.html">Paul
Barford Buys a Metal Detector</a>": <br />Fit the largest coil you can find and ram it up your arse, Paul. It will help a
Swift insertion! lol </span></blockquote>
<b style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">TAKE A GOOD LOOK at this behaviour</b><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, for these are precisely the sort of people the PAS wants to grab more and more millions of public quid to make into the "partners" of the British Museum, archaeological heritage professionals and to whom they want us all to entrust the exploitation of the archaeological record. Take a good look and decide what you think about that as a "policy". </span><br />
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I made some comments about the recovery of a hoard in Gloucestershire. Here is how one UK metal detectorist reacted, revealing a favourite adjective to be a short one beginning with 'f':<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/09/another-false-claim-about-metal.html">Another
false claim about metal detecting</a>": <br />Drop it Barford, or I will be back to fucking haunt you! How is that fucking
heart of your's, is it still ticking? IF you want to fight you fine, but
remember, I downed your site for 6 fucking weeks, I will come back if you want
the agro! </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/09/well-give-it-vbit-more-and-well-stop.html">We'll
give it a bit more and we'll stop'. Appallin...</a>": <br />Hey, cunt features leave these guys alone or I will be back. I downed you once
before, you are no fucking match for me. ''Steve the Barford Slayer'' If you want to
take me on again, fine!!!!!! </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/09/well-give-it-vbit-more-and-well-stop.html">We'll
give it a bit more and we'll stop'. Appallin...</a>": <br />Just remember your fucking brain is very small compared to mine!!!! ''Steve The Barford
Slayer'' </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/09/not-only-for-collecting-or-study-uk.html">Not
only for Collecting (or 'Study'), UK Artefact ...</a>": <br />No this is copyright infringement Paul, you have been warned!</span></blockquote>
[and no it is not] Then, after a social media comment about responsible artefact hunting<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> has left a new comment on your post "</span><a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">":</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">F</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">uck off cunt features! You're not wanted on Facebook! </span></blockquote>
Note, Mr Taylor reserves to himself the right to speak (using the 'f'word and referring to his urogenital fixation) for an entire Facebook group of 'responsible detectorists'<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />Retired now wanker, so I can send some premium time with you, driving up your
blood pressure to critical. Let's see what I can do to that fatty little heart
of yours this time around!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />I have now blocked you on Facebook Paul and passed this on too all the other
sites. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your arsehole, and have a have
a heart attack for Christmas, please!</span></blockquote>
[in fact, he only imagines that he has blocked my access to Facebook, what he means is that he has blocked himself from seeing my posts there and in his ignorance imagines that what he cannot see, others cannot either]<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />Fuck off wanker! Or I will close your blog down like I did last time for
copyright intrusion. If you know the meaning of copyright,not fair use!, look
it up!!!! You thick cunt!</span></blockquote>
[see above] He did not close my blog down, it is still active.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />I thought I saw you on the streets of Britain last week, but someone then told
me it was just a pile of dog shit. PMSL </span></blockquote>
So, little things obviously please little minds. Here in Europe, the streets are not covered in animal excreta like the area where Mr Taylor lives apparently is.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />You must be losing the plot coming on Facebook in your own name, thinking no
one will know you, and then posting criticism on your sad blog, that no one
ever reads, apart from gay Nigel. Do yourself a favour and fuck off from
society, and live quietly in that squalid little flat of yours blue those blue
railings. Gated community, what a fucking laugh! It's a run-down tenement block
with peeling paintwork! </span></blockquote>
I see no reason not to use my own name to represent what are my own views. Blue, blue my railings are not blue. I think Mr Taylor must have been lurking (he says) outside the wrong house when he visited Warsaw... Could have been an expensive mistake Mr Taylor.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />I see your anal friend from Heritageaction who is also the ugliest cunt who has
ever walked the earth is now twittering on about something, you're like tweedle
dum and fucking tweedle dee! Sorry about spoiling your little game on Facebook,
but you are a cunt Paul, going on about people's education like you were some
higher intelligent being. If you are so intelligent you wouldn't have walked
into my trap a few years ago, and had to down your blog! That was funny as fuck
when I ran National Barford day and you pulled the plug just in time!!!! Then
Swifty tells the sad story how a Gloucestershire detectorist had silence poor
Paul. </span></blockquote>
Mr Taylor is losing it and apparently lives in his own fantasy world.... 'National Barford Day' was when precisely? Mr Taylor's 'education' simply shines through the extent of the vocabulary he chooses to articulate the points he makes in the debate on artefact collecting best practice. More anal sex references from this highly educated retired gardener:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />Do you still have those red hot pokers up your ass Paul, or did Nigel remove
them so he could fit in as well!</span></blockquote>
He seems upset I did not put the last few on my blog for all to see his shining wit and erudition:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/17929830048316535051">Paul Barford and
his amazing talking arsehole</a> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2017/11/partially-literate-artefact-hoiker.html">Partially
Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...</a>": <br />Hey yellow belly post my threat up for all to see! you have more shit running
through you than the Ganges!!!!!! </span></blockquote>
<b style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">TAKE A GOOD LOOK at this behaviour</b><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, for these are precisely the sort of people the PAS wants to grab more and more millions of public quid to make into the "partners" of the British Museum, archaeological heritage professionals and to whom they want us all to entrust the exploitation of the archaeological record. Take a good look and decide what you think about that as a "policy". </span><br />
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Barford > <i>better known to us under a variety of pseudonyms, many of them unprintable</i>.<<br />
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So is the person who so criticises artefact hunters not simply giving as good as he gets from
the detectorists who, unable on the whole to engage with articulate argument ,
only resort to crude tribal attitudes, insults and <i>ad personam</i>s. A good example is the <a href="http://www.johnwinter.net/jw/2017/07/paul-barford-arrogance-personified/">post here</a>, where senior detectorist John Winter is looking forward to thousands of hits when I link to his moaning blog.<br />
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Hit away at the tekkie...<br />
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-2236519454187426312016-11-02T22:29:00.000-07:002016-11-02T22:29:11.355-07:00Pledge Until Death<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/07255744164675503973" rel="nofollow">Dave Welsh</a></span> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3279887958085077691&postID=3381629341440836124">to Peter Tompa</a>:<br />
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Peter,<br />
It's very important that there shall be a strong,
continuing voice for sanity and reason in the conduct of US cultural
heritage policy.<br />
Apart from all other considerations, the
superannuation of Maria Kouroupas impends. Her political connections do
not confer immortality upon her. At some point in the not very distant
future, we may expect that advancing age and infirmity will sideline the
most dangerous and destructive personality the collecting community has
ever faced, in the adverse development of US cultural heritage policy.<br />
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have, through many and various aspects of service to the interests of
collectors and the small businesses that supply them, effectively become
their "leader of the opposition." <br />
I personally regard "<i>the
Gathering Storm</i>" as one of the most convincing expositions of the utter
and unconscionable folly of pandering to insensate and foolish
"political correctness." In this volume Churchill settled, I believe
forever, all questions regarding whether his long and often lonely
opposition to the politics of future irretrievable disaster was
justified. The verdict of history is that it was not only justified, but
memorably heroic. <br />
Keep that in mind whenever you are feeling
lonely and not very well supported. <b>I at any rate will be with you to
the death, and then beyond</b>, as my well known personal beliefs indicate. <br />
Dave</blockquote>
It is not clear whether Mr Welsh thinks the anticipated departure of 'the most dangerous and destructive personality the collecting community has ever faced', will lead to positive or 'adverse' developments in US cultural heritage policy. The reference to Churchill's apologetic book suggests that Mr Welsh envisages that collectors are faced with the prospect of a future apocalyptic war due to the 'unconscionable folly of pandering to insensate and foolish "political correctness"...' (I guess we are seeing here the dealer's dismissal of efforts to stem the damaging haemorrhaging of the cultural resources of poorer countries to the neo-colonialist US). By hyperbolic analogy he praises Tompa for his 'long and often lonely opposition to the politics of future irretrievable disaster' and indicates that he considers it 'memorably heroic'. He pledges loyalty unto death 'and beyond' if they <a href="http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/">allow him out of Purgatory for his slanderous tongue</a>.
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Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734142947449217945.post-11474050784747776732016-07-26T13:16:00.000-07:002016-07-26T13:16:00.444-07:00The Things Collectors Say<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The collector who <a href="http://pasttimesandpresnttensions.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-cultural-heritage-group-neurosis-4_26.html">counts himself superior to the average academic Iron Age specialist</a>:
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were <span style="font-size: large;">I </span>to go into the countryside, find a field with a cow in it and
then explain to that cow the evolution of British Celtic art, the cow
would be none the wiser. The same thing would happen if I were to do the
same <b>with an <i>average</i> academic archaeologist who specializes in
the pre-Roman Iron Age</b>. The only difference between the comprehension
level of the cow and the archaeologist being that the cow knows it does
not understand anything being said and the archaeologist thinks he or
she does, but really does not, as their knowledge is framed withing
various weasel-word terms that actually only have an apparency of
meaning [...]. We
might ponder about which is more intelligent, the cow or the
archaeologist in this scenario. </blockquote>
Or the experimenter who cannot articulate his thoughts in a manner which can be followed by the person he is addressing. Mr Hooker tried to explain his thoughts on "<a href="http://pasttimesandpresnttensions.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-ancient-celts-and-their.html">British Celtic art" on his blog </a>and got so completely lost nobody on earth could follow what he was saying.The reason however is not the lack of intelligence among the readers but the lack of intelligent presentation and essay planning by the writer.<br />
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