Well done Steve, you def. threw out a few breadcrumbs, like 10,000,000.
Chances are the retailers will do well out of it as well.
Val
People will always enter the hobby hoping to get rich, and dealers will be rubbing their hands around the county as the tills start to ring. It’s the same when there is a big lottery win, people pile in, but very few people make a profit.
With the amount of land out there, and the population of Britain through the ages, I would think there are still 1000’s of hoard to find, probably a lot bigger than we have seen so far.
All that newspapers and radio presenters want to hear is the value of the objects, rusty nails and pull rings don’t get many people excited.
To say detectorists are only in it for the money, is totally wrong as the landowner has a say in it as well. Nothing wrong in screwing for Government for every penny you can, because they have certainly screwed us all over the years, time and time again.
Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants may bleat on with his communist ramblings and say everything belongs to the state, but we live in a democracy where capitalist tendencies rule. Maybe he should go and work in a Siberian salt mine, and if were really lucky, they will seal the entrance.